Helene Hanff Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 15, 1916 - April 9, 1997
Birthday: April 15
Death: April 9
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is ‘How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall’.
topic: Writing, Men, Guilt, Chaucer, Middle English, Anglo Saxon, Mead
