“It's a gift. Never lend a book.”
“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.”
“I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…”
“There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because you will never get it back. ~ James Wood, author of The Book Against God.”
“Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.”
“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft."A Reader on Reading p. 281”