Book Quote by James Jeffrey Roche

“The book borrower… proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his…

— Walter Benjamin

“Only friends steal books.”

— Roger Zelazny

“You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.”

— Bella Bathurst

“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

“Don't men read books and take from them what is already in their own hearts?”

— Traci L. Slatton

“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281”

— Alberto Manguel

“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar,…

— Amos Oz

“Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from…

— H.L. Stephens

“Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper cut.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it…

— Jeanette Winterson

“He always had books. Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they…

— John Green

“Books don't steal time—they make it disappear.”

— Anonymous