I was a bookish nerd.

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

— Nicola Sturgeon

“Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto,…

— Pamela Paul

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

— Michael De Luca

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us…

— Pamela Paul

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I have grown to realize that there are very few impossibilities in our world.”

— Erin Forbes

“And so we became who we are: gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused. It is not a bad way to be, when…

— Bill Richardson

“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

“...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

For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned…

— Iain Sinclair