Bookishness Quotes

The grateful savants had accepted, and they were spending the rest of their lives reading fifteenth-hand opinions, taking pleasant naps, and drooling out to yawning students the anemic and wordy bookishness which they called learning. (Sinclair Lewis)
Great is bookishness and the charm of books. View quote
Augustine Birrell
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. View quote
Nicholson Baker