I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out…

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved…

— David Levithan

My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when friends came…

— David C. Driskell

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies…

— Stephen King

I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered…

— Larry Howes

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

— Rachel Cohn

You bookish little pervert.

— Rachel Cohn

“The pen provides a pathway for the musings of the heart.”

— Erin Forbes

“To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.”

— Pamela Paul

I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.

— Molly Ringwald

“The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last in the…

— Patricia Duncker

To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination…

— John Cowper Powys

I was a bookish nerd.

— Shannon Bream

“...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”

— Laini Taylor

“There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or…

— Leigh Bardugo

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

— Nicola Sturgeon