{"quotes":[{"text":"Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!","author":"Gerald Morris","tags":["antigone","bookish","brave","gawain","insult","learned","smart","tactless"],"id":10687,"author_id":"Gerald+Morris"},{"text":"The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as “bookfaces” or “unable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,” and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son.","author":"Colleen Chen","tags":["bookish","books","dictator","intelligence","learning","logic","monarchy","nerds","nerdy","popularity","propaganda","reading","thinking","twisted"],"id":31573,"author_id":"Colleen+Chen"},{"text":"...But one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.","author":"Laini Taylor","tags":["bookish","books","readers"],"id":43559,"author_id":"Laini+Taylor"},{"text":"All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us absorb other people's words, feeling like we have gotten to know the authors personally in our own ways, even if just a tiny bit. True, we may also harbor jealousy or resentment, disbelief or disappointment. We may wish we had written those words ourselves or berate ourselves for knowing we never could or sigh with relief that we didn't, but thank goodness someone else has.","author":"Pamela Paul","tags":["bookish","bookishness","books","readers-and-writers","reading","writing"],"id":56268,"author_id":"Pamela+Paul"},{"text":"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["acumen","ity","book-knowledge","bookish","brainy","charge","cleverness","comand","control","direction","dominance","foresight","genuis","huge","immature","influence","intelligence","knowledge","leader","leadership","leading","little-things","looks","management","mastery","power","precocious","rule","sight","size","small","sovereignty","steering","superintendence","supremacy","sway","tiny","wisdom","wise"],"id":60820,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Pamela Paul","tags":["book-clubs","bookish","bookishness","books","readers","reading","rereading"],"id":65300,"author_id":"Pamela+Paul"},{"text":"She wrote books—and she was happy.","author":"Veda Bardot","tags":["bookish","self-awareness","who-am-i"],"id":78560,"author_id":"Veda+Bardot"},{"text":"Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need trouble himself further about their entertainment.","author":"M.R. James","tags":["book","bookish","books","readers","readers-and-writers","reading","reading-books","writers"],"id":128120,"author_id":"M.R.+James"},{"text":"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.","author":"Irvine Welsh","tags":["book","bookish","books","heroine","introversion","introvert","irvine-welsh","library","literature","read","reader","reading","reading-books","skagboys","solitude","zenith"],"id":190687,"author_id":"Irvine+Welsh"},{"text":"Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder.","author":"Julie Murphy","tags":["bibliophile","bookish","contemp","dumplin","ya","yacontemp"],"id":197651,"author_id":"Julie+Murphy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}