Top 100 Bookworm Quotes

#1. When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.

Laura Bush

#2. Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.

Paul Theroux

#3. Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

Zac Efron

#4. I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.

G.A. Henty

#5. I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

Joyce Rachelle

#7. Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

Nicholaa Spencer

#8. You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

Lemony Snicket

#9. Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge to fill the emptiness inside.

Jennifer Irwin

#10. Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

Tara Bray Smith

#11. I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.

Teresa Of Avila

#12. You're such a bookworm," Fenn said, shaking his head as he counted the books in my hand. "No," I corrected "I just want to be prepared.

Candace Knoebel

#13. I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.

Tammara Webber

#14. Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.

Haidji

#15. Books are where the true magic happens.

Jen Wilde

#16. Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

Amy Engel

#17. I was a bookworm then, but when I came to know it, I woke among the butterflies.

George MacDonald

#18. If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.

David Sedaris

#19. The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

Shakira

#20. Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

Amor Towles

#21. Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of a book. You explore new lands, meet new people, feel new emotions, and are no longer the same person you were one word prior to reading it.

Martha Sweeney

#22. The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book of a shelf calmed her. Opening the cover, feeling the paper's smoothness, smelling the sheets, the leather, even sometimes the ink, centered her.

M.J. Rose

#23. There's a story behind every Bookworm"!

Annie Lang

#24. The Airwitch had gone from reading nothing in his life to never stopping, buying every novel or history book he could get his hands on.

Susan Dennard

#25. The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.

Lauren Leto

#26. A common misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, prowling libraries and disdaining the normal youngster's propensity for play rather than study, would grow up to be a teacher anyway?

Steve Brody

#27. To harness your potentials,look inward,upward to God,then outward your environment

Ikechukwu Joseph

#28. No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of anything.

Jennifer Loren

#29. I am a bookworm.

Holly Madison

#30. The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

Louisa May Alcott

#31. I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Robert Littell

#32. [...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic

Ben Oliveira

#33. Never underestimate a bookworm

Louisa Klein

#34. Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.

Munia Khan

#35. The bookworm of great libraries.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#36. I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.

Colin Mochrie

#37. I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.

Nikita Gill

#38. For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.

Laura Furman

#39. I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.

Nicole Gale Anderson

#40. To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

Fran Lebowitz

#41. I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Olga Goa

#42. I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

Caroline Leavitt

#43. You want it, you slutty little bookworm.

Charlotte Stein

#44. Pamela looked at his retreating back with admiration. He represented the backbone of Britain at this moment. A skinny, awkward bookworm, yet determined to keep going for as long as it took to defeat Hitler.

Rhys Bowen

#45. You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

Jay Kristoff

#46. But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.

Gillian Flynn

#47. When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

Erica Jong

#48. The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

Lemony Snicket

#49. I had been, to the age of 25, a bookworm.

Sante D'Orazio

#50. Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!!

Tushar Upreti

#51. I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

Chelsea Cain

#52. I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Kirby Larson

#53. American feminism has a man problem. The beaming Betty Crockers, hangdog dowdies, and parochial prudes who call themselves feminists want men to be like women. They fear and despise the masculine. The academic feminists think their nerdy bookworm husbands are the ideal model of human manhood. But

Camille Paglia

#54. She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

Cornelia Funke

#55. A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

Frank Grillo

#56. You have that look on your face," she whispered mockingly, "that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin'-library look and now she's going to spin around like she can read them all at once through osmosis.

Victoria Kahler

#57. -our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.

Anne Fadiman

#58. When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.

Joyce Rachelle

#59. My life is too lonely without fictional people crowding my mind.

Rebecca Raisin

#60. Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Olga Goa

#61. I'll be a straitjacketed bookworm burrowed into the binding of an insane, homicidal book, staring helplessly out from the pages of my own life, as they're writ by someone else, and I'd commit atrocities that would damn a saint's soul.

Karen Marie Moning

#62. In my mind, I am this awesome, adventurous bad ass. But in reality, I am just a bookworm that really likes wine.

S.L. Jennings

#63. I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!

Julianne Moore

#64. A bookworm-one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries. He has no inward fountain of ideas ... " - "Earth's Holocaust", Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#65. The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Joyce Brothers

#66. Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died.

Joyce Rachelle

#67. The bookworm catches the early bird!

A.J. DeJong

#68. The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

L.J. DeVet

#69. Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

Joyce Rachelle

#70. He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James.
"No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader.

George Eliot

#71. They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was -- a nerdy bookworm, a happy loner -- and move on.

Jennifer E. Smith

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

Anonymous

#73. Never develop a passion you can't afford. It'll eat your heart away like a bookworm.

Cornelia Funke

#74. If you're a bookworm and love to read popular fiction, and don't really care about who the author is, regardless if it is self-published or traditionally published, then Kindle Unlimited might be a good service for you.

K.D Techster

#75. You're a fangirl; you'd sneak off to meet your favorite Characters if it meant having to wade through a crowd of zombies.

Marlene Simonette

#76. For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care
of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

Anurag Shourie

#77. My books have taken me around the world, but it's time I stepped from the pages, so I can see it for myself

Rebecca Raisin

#78. I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Rebecca Eaton

#79. Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

Aman Jassal

#80. The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

Piero Scaruffi

#81. [Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

Robert D. Richardson

#82. My normal life is I love to travel, and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader, I guess you could say: I'm a bit of a bookworm.

Alaina Huffman

#83. The bookworm - "one of the teeth of time," as Hooke put it - is no longer familiar to ordinary readers, but the ancients knew it very well.

Stephen Greenblatt

#84. Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly

John Green

#85. I don't care when people think I'm an antisocial, controlling bookworm because that's what I am. It's when they interpret me wrong that I have a problem.

Kasie West

#86. Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

Carla H. Krueger

#87. I'm a total bookworm, too. I figure, why do I need a guy in my bed when I can just fall asleep with my Kindle?

Komal Kant

#88. I love a book which never ends in my head, even though- a thousand times, it has been read!

Mansi Tejpal

#89. Hamlet: the agony of the bookworm forced to be a man of action.

Marty Rubin

#90. You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Olga Goa

#91. It is always better to be a bookworm rather than being a dung-beetle!

Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

#92. But in the book," I say, "the mockingbird is supposed to be a symbol of innocence. That's why it's a sin to kill one."
"Who says it's a symbol of innocence?" asks Mort.
"Teachers," I tell him. "Book reviewers, critics --"
"Wikipedia," Elena calls from behind the window display.

Paul Acampora

#93. A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

Phyllis McGinley

#94. We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyday life

Ben Oliveira

#95. How could Belle, a lonely little bookworm of a country girl, ever come from someone so great that she meted out curses and blessings like candy and then took over an entire castle with her presence?

Liz Braswell

#96. Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'
They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.

CLAMP

#97. I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

Idris Elba

#98. The world is a thick book
and I am a big bookworm.

Anika Redhed

#99. Build: Bookworm, but tough

Kim Harrison

#100. I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

Julie Kagawa

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