I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
Helene HanffI personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
Helene HanffI 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