Books Quote by Roberto Bolaño

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

“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

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

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

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

— Anonymous

Nobody steals books but your friends.

— Roger Zelazny

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

— Helene Hanff

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 are essential to me. I cannot live without them, because I cannot live without reading. But, Arry has just said to me, you…

— Aidan Chambers

“Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.”

— A.N.L. Munby

“Only friends steal books.”

— Roger Zelazny

“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am personally and…

— Harold Laski