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

I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know ... they just didn't do it for me. — Laura Ramsey

I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

And yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way. — Paula McLain

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name. — Tawni O'Dell

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'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part. — John Logan

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

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic. — Michael De Luca

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. — Irvine Welsh

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

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side. — Piper Perabo

We clung to each other, as bookish young people often do, while waiting out the years until our real lives could begin. At — Molly Crabapple

And so we became who we are: gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused. It is not a bad way to be, when all is said and done. — Bill Richardson

You bookish little pervert. — Rachel Cohn

This cult seems like it might have been designed specifically to prey on bookish old people - Scientology for scholarly seniors. — Robin Sloan

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty

Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting. — Brian K. Vaughan

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish. — Gail Carriger

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. — Samuel Johnson

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life. — Ray Bradbury

necromancy was essentially a bookish art, — Michael D. Bailey

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! — Natalie Merchant

Here in the realm of books she's self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn't have anywhere else. — Tim Tharp

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really. — Guy Gavriel Kay

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section. — Joyce Rachelle

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. — George Eliot

I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever. — Bobbie Ann Mason

The not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill. — Ellen Hopkins

Like those proverbial bookish men who could not even tell types of grains apart, they do not labor with their hands, and know nothing practical. They — Liu Cixin

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

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. — Will Self

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

No doubt much will be said elsewhere by the armies of bigotry and punditry. Let them volley and thunder. I'll speak of bookish things. — Salman Rushdie

There are bookish dreams here, sir, there is a heart chafed by theories; — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish! — Gerald Morris

The thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people. — Andy Miller

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely. — Matt Haig

An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers. — Joseph Conrad

I was this weird little bookish giant. — Aisha Tyler

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky. — E.V. Fairfall

If you try to walk in my shoes, you'll end up in a bookstore. — Anonymous

So is that why you're hanging out here? To seduce bookish chicks?"
"I don't know. Maybe. Is it working? — Elizabeth Brown

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him. — Bruce Coville