Mark Helprin Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

  Book, Soul, Mules

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

• [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

  Crazy, Real, Book

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

  Mark Helprin

  Book, Ideas, Making Money

• I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert S. Bosco's latest novel?" or "Have you read so and so's history of Peru, which is reviewed in the New York Review of Books and the New York Times and has a buzz about it?" I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm like from another planet. I'm a pygmy from the jungle.

  Mark Helprin

  New York, Book, Talking

  Source: americasfuture.org

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