Bookish Quotes

I was a bookish nerd.

— Shannon Bream

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

— Michael De Luca

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

— Erin Forbes

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

— Erin Forbes

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

— Laini Taylor

“necromancy was essentially a bookish art,”

— Michael D. Bailey

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

— Rachel Cohn

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

— Bill Richardson

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

— 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 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…

— Pamela Paul

“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read…

— Pamela Paul

“Delighted," Jess said. "I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them--" "Homes?" the doctor finished. "You are quite…

— Rachel Caine

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

— David Levithan

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

— John Cowper Powys

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

— Iain Sinclair

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

— Patricia Duncker

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

— Pamela Paul

“To a thoughtful biographer, [Ebling Mis's house] was "the symbolization of a retreat from a non-academic reality", a society columnist gushed silkily…

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Leigh Bardugo

“She wrote books—and she was happy.”

— Veda Bardot

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

— Jules Renard

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

— Ray Bradbury

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of…

— Gail Carriger

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

— Rachel Cohn

“She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!”

— Gerald Morris

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

— Robert Sapolsky

“Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.”

— Pamela Paul

“She decided at once that she and the boy were cut of the same bookish cloth, and could quite possibly become co-conspirators.”

— Jordan Stratford

“They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the…

— Diane Schoemperlen

“And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a…

— Jesse Giles Christiansen