Bookworm Quotes (71 Quotes)

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

  Lemony Snicket

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

  CLAMP

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• “There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still. When his tutors had thrown up their hands in frustration, it was the library that had taught Nikolai military history, strategy, chemistry, astronomy. Each spine had been an open door away whispering, Come in, come in. Here is the land you’ve never seen before. Here is a place to hide when you’re frightened, to play when you’re bored, to rest when the world seems unkind.”

  Leigh Bardugo

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  “I knew you talked to books. I didn't realize they listened.”

  Margaret Rogerson

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  “Books on the bookshelves
  And stacked on the floor
  Books kept in baskets
  And propped by the door
  Books in neat piles
  And in disarray
  Books tucked in closets
  And books on display
  Books filling crannies
  And books packed in nooks
  Books massed in windows
  And mounded in crooks
  Libraries beckon
  And bookstores invite
  But book-filled rooms welcome
  Us back home at night!”

  L.R. Knost

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  “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

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  “There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

  Christopher Morley

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  “Never underestimate a bookworm”

  Louisa Klein

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  “[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.”

  Paul Auster

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  “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

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  “It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel”

  John Green

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

  Gillian Flynn

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  “Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”

  Adelise M. Cullens

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  “I know it’s highly unusual for people to get this excited over books. But if you’re a reader, you get me . I don’t need movies. I don’t need TV. But books I can’t live without books. To
  me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book, my imagination, and I am set free. I’m in literature heaven. And thank God, this may be the only thing that keeps me sane while we’re here.”

  Belle Aurora

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

  Piero Scaruffi

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  “Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"
  
  "My favorite character died.”

  Joyce Rachelle

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• “Sometimes I fantasize about getting my hands on my library records. . . my recurring bookworm dream is to peruse my personal library history like it's a historical document.
  
  My bookshelves show me the books I've bought or been given. . . But my library books come into my house and go out again, leaving behind only memories and a jotted line in a journal (if I'm lucky). I long for a list that captures these ephemeral reads - all the books I've borrowed in a lifetime of reading, from last week's armful spanning back to when I was a seven-year-old kid with my first library card. I don't need many details - just the titles and dates would be fine - but oh, how I'd love to see them.
  
  Those records preserve what my memory has not. I remember the highlights of my grade-school checkouts, but much is lost to time. How I'd love to see the complete list of what I chose to read in second grade, or sixth, or tenth.”

  Anne Bogel

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  “Delighted," Jess said. "I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them--"
  "Homes?" the doctor finished. "You are quite the heretic, for someone in a Library uniform."
  "Guilty.”

  Rachel Caine

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  “I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay atop the table next to his reading lamp, the corner of page 138 turned down. He'd never made it to the end of the book. 'Spoiler alert: Mayhem survives,' I said out loud to him, just in case he could hear me.”

  John Green

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  “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

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  “Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.”

  Aman Jassal

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  “The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all, the wilderness of books in which she could wander where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
  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

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• “Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and demanding one. There is nothing passive about reading; it requires attention, energy, an act of will. Texts have potential for meaning, implication, response, and result; but the reader must activate them, give them life, and turn them from quiet print into a lively interplay of ideas and feelings. Reading makes things happen, usually in the mind and imagination, but sometimes in the larger world as well, for the process of reading involves not just the consciousness of the self but an awareness of the other -- what is beyond the self. Reading doesn't just happen to you; you have to do it, and it involves decision, reaching out, discovery, awareness. Reading is an act of power, and learning how to get the most out of its possibilities can be an invigorating activity. For all its association with quietness, solitude, and the sedentary life, reading involves -- at its deepest level -- action and interaction.”

  J. Paul Hunter

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  “We are improved by reading books not by owning them.”

  Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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  “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

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