Mark Helprin Quotes

Books are like my one and only joy.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

May books and nature be their early joy!

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

We live for books.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

I was never without a book in my hand.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.