Bookworms Quotes - Page 2

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Taken, Mean

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• I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.

  Lew Wallace

  Book, Writing, Men

  LEW WALLACE (1906). “AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”

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• I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the culture there is, you go to the pub and talk to people there, and that's how you get the news and all the gossip. You just do it face to face. And culturally, you just couldn't understand.

  Patton Oswalt

  People, Gossip, Faces

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• 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

  Teacher, Jesus, Tests

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• I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school...and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.

  Sophia Bush

  Girl, School, Opportunity

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• 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

  Book, Littles, Void

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• I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!

  Fanny Fern

  Sorry, Fighting, Laughing

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres

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• 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

  Book, Kids, New Friends

  "Interview with Kirby Larson, Author of Hattie Big Sky". Interview with Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com. February 23, 2010.

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

  Julie Kagawa

  Reading, Kids, Dragons

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