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I tell you, life is extraordinary. A few years ago I couldn’t write anything or sell anything, I’d passed the age where you know all the returns are in, I’d had my chance and done my best and failed. And how was I to know the miracle waiting to happen round the corner in late middle age? 84, Charing Cross Road was no best seller, you understand; it didn’t make me rich or famous. It just got me hundreds of letters and phone calls from people I never knew existed; it got me wonderful reviews; it restored a self-confidence and self-esteem I’d lost somewhere along the way, God knows how many years ago. It brought me to England. It changed my life.

~ Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff Dream Success

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

~ Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff Book Lover Books

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

~ Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff Books Bookstore Library

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.

~ Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff Reading

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

~ Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff British Debt England Kiss Please Writers

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

~ Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff Book Bookstore Library Books
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