Book Quote by Helene Hanff

“Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on”

— Helene Hanff

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

— Anne Fadiman

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and…

— Mary Roach

I don't do things by the book.

— Frankie Faison

My books are not for everybody.

— George Pelecanos

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

— Anonymous

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

— Oscar Wilde

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

— Fran Lebowitz

To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as…

— Alexander Pope

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,…

— Bobby Orr