Helprin Books Quotes & Sayings

You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head. — John Ringo

The whole place smells of dried flowers and burnt egg, and there isn't a nail or picture hook in the entire hotel that doesn't have a few dusty sprigs of old Christmas tinsel caught on it all year round. — Emerald Fennell

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it. — Louisa May Alcott

I am not impressed by big words,' said my uncle, who was always read enough to bandy 'predestination' and 'infralapsarianism. — Peter De Vries

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy ... Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. — Mark Helprin

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. — Nick Cave

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity. — Samuel Smiles

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day. — Mark Helprin

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself. — Mark Helprin

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule. — Mark Helprin

What do they mean to you?" he asked, leaning back into the portable thicket of his gray vested suit. Beverly took back her pages and studied them. After a while, she looked up. "They mean to me that the universe . . . growls, and sings. No, shouts." The learned astronomer was shocked. In dealing with the public he was often confronted by lunatics and visionaries, some of whose theories were elegant, some absurd, and some, perhaps, right on the mark. But those were usually old bearded men who lived in lofts crowded with books and tools, eccentrics who walked around the city, pushing carts full of their belongings, madmen from state institutions that could not hold them. There was always something arresting and true about their thoughts, as if their lunacy were as much a gift as an affliction, though the heavy weight of the truth they sensed so strongly had clouded their reason, and all the wonder in what they said was shattered and disguised. He — Mark Helprin

Recover? She clasped her hands in her lap, staring at them as pain welled up in her chest. Could one recover from a broken heart — Sasha Summers

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary. — Mark Helprin

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. — Mark Helprin

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. — Denis Waitley