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A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because you need to make constant decisions.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
— Helene Hanff
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
— Helene Hanff
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
— Helene Hanff
All my life I've wanted to see London. [ ... ] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.
— Helene Hanff
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
— Helene Hanff
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
— Helene Hanff
Before, mostly for commitment hearings held in a makeshift court
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Want of a better idea, she washed her face with the available hand soap and dried
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
— Helene Hanff
I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.
— Helene Hanff
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.
— Helene Hanff
She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
— Helene Hanff
There is a sound to waiting. It sounds like held breath pounding its fists against the walls of the lung, damp and muffled beats.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
