Book Quote by Helene Hanff

“Have you got De Tocqueville's Journey to America? Somebody borrowed mine and never gave it back. Why is it that people who wouldn't dream…

— Helene Hanff

“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.”

— Roberto Bolaño

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great…

— Malcolm Bradbury

Nobody steals books but your friends.

— Roger Zelazny

Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were…

— Daniel Pennac

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

— Anton Chekhov

If you want something, and you want it, you shouldn't just go and steal it.

— LaVar Ball

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music…

— Tucker Max

I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and I also…

— Sara Pascoe

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

— Robert Breault

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop…

— Piers Anthony

Stealing is OK as long as it's done well.

— Richard Garriott