Book Quote by Malcolm Bradbury

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

“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

“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

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the…

— Hilary Mantel

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

— Philip Pullman

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

— Helene Hanff

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

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

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from…

— Bob Hartley

Only your friends steal your books.

— Voltaire

I was lucky: I feel like I've written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to me, and…

— Markus Zusak

“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