Book Quote by Roger Zelazny Download Open image “Nobody steals books but your friends.” — Roger Zelazny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Inspirational Stealing
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Time, too, is a function of Shadow, and even Dworkin did not know all of its ins and outs. Or perhaps he did. Maybe… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Far below, the ocean was a bluegray rug being pulled out from beneath us.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“That was the first time in my life that I knew the meaning of despair. I read, I worked, I drank, I whored, but… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
