Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction

And the upside to being confined to home was that it gave me plenty of time to continue reading.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.

Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

I went upstairs to my office, lay in the dark among my books - the only comforting thing I have.

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

Some books are so vivid, I think the words fell off the page and worked their way inside my head.