Quotes About Bookishness

#1. Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

George Steiner

#2. Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

Nicholson Baker

#3. Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

Augustine Birrell

#4. The book was thick and red. It was almost thicker than it was wide, a thickness that somehow enhanced its bookishness. It was - to me aged 12 - quite clearly more of a book than most, if not all, of the paperbacks untidily stacked on the shelves of my father's study.

Will Self

#5. 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, as if we'd never truly tasted it before.

Pamela Paul

#6. One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

Milton Friedman

#7. All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.
Psalm 139:16

S.L. Rubart

#8. aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something... and gained something else.

Penny Reid

#9. There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

Carmen Lawrence

#10. Damn, there goes my chance for some hot sexy talk.

Rachel Caine

#11. I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

Anthony Powell

#12. You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

Tom Wolfe

#13. You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.

Andrew Long

#14. 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

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

Pamela Paul

#16. There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene.

Amit Ray

#17. Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

J.M. Barrie

#18. Reading books again? Books will ruin your sword eye, boy.

George R R Martin

#19. Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.

Wilhelm Reich

#20. 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 more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no way to finish, and perhaps that shouldn't be the goal.

Pamela Paul