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Vincent Starrett Quotes

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Vincent Starrett
Book, Writing, Collecting
Vincent Starrett (1929). “Penny wise and book foolish”

But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won case...So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895.

Vincent Starrett
Country, Rain, Writing

Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

Vincent Starrett
Journey, Rainbow, Gold

Only those things the heart believes are true.

Vincent Starrett
Believe, Heart
Vincent Starrett (2016). “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes [Revised Edition]”, p.67, Pickle Partners Publishing

A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon the fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet. Here though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

Vincent Starrett
Lonely, Rain, Past
Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber (1995). “More Books Alive: New Treasures from a Master Literary Detective”, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box

The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

Vincent Starrett
Color, Yesterday, History
"Persons from Porlock: And Other Interruptions".

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