Ginnifer Goodwin

I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.

American Actress

Simon Winchester

I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.

English Author

Louis Theroux

For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.

British Director

Blake Bailey

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

American Writer

Robert Sapolsky

I was very sheltered, very bookish and, basically, skittish about life. My parents were both older when I came along and they didn't do things like take vacations.

American Scientist

John Logan

I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.

American Producer

Michael Dirda

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

American Critic

Bruce Coville

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.

American Author

Ray Bradbury

Shannon Bream

American Journalist

The adjective can imply endearment when describing someone's personality, often positive.

Affectionate Undertones

Use 'bookish' to suggest someone may prefer books to social events without being negative.

Non-Social

The word can give clues to a character trait, like being introverted.

Personality Hint

Describes interests as intellectual, possibly specialized, without implying expertise.

Intellectual Interest

Implies someone may have theoretical knowledge but not necessarily practical skills.

Practicality Lacking

Can be used to emphasize deep, thorough understanding of academic subjects.

In Depth

 Born in Argentina in 1899, he admired the revolutionaries of his mother’s family but took after his father’s bookish clan. His body of essays, poems, and stories, or, as he called them, ficciones

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 but i guess for me the social cues were not uh intuitive so i was just very bookish and i didn't understand this i guess others could

Bookish