“One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.”

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”

“It is like having a book out from the library.
It is like constantly having a book out from the library.”

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudie's, and it makes me very angry if anyone gives me one for my private library.”

“My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.”

“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”

“You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated."
"I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.”

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”