Book Nerd Quotes & Sayings

But what if you are a smart girl in love? All because I was a book nerd didn't mean, I didn't feel, I didn't want. Shylock had cried out in excess of pain, "If you prick me do I not bleed!" But a book nerd is not allowed to be human, to say "you make me melt" and still have her mind want something else entirely? — Candice Raquel Lee

Every rule, every chart, every geeky statistic in a game book or module feeds into this impulse. All those details allow us to take apart existence, look at the individual parts, figure out how they work, and put them back together. Some people relieve stress by getting drunk or high and losing control; nerds find comfort by taking control and applying structure. Logic is like a warm blanket. — David M. Ewalt

In a well-ordered universe ... camping would take place indoors. — Morgan Matson

I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing. — Zachary Levi

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff. — John Barrowman

In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely. — Mark Hamill

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out. — Winona Ryder

I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it. — Malorie Blackman

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies. — Nicole Anderson

Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."
Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?"
"I bet you'll tell me."
" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "
You're a riot. — Brandon Mull

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. — Moby

My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding ... That's the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn't as much into the comic book stuff. So it's fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me. — Tom Lenk

Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA — Mirella Muffarotto

Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek ... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party. — Jacqueline Emerson

I'm frankly sick of all the books and movies trying to predict when Jesus will return and we'll get to start our eternal vacation at his all-inclusive resort called heaven. I'm also sick of the nerd parade of books and conferences that approach the Bible like scholars whose mission is to get their Masters rather than soldiers who are on mission with their Master. We've got work to do. There are lost people to reach, churches to plant, and nations to evangelize. Hell is hot, forever is a long time, and it's our turn to stop making a dent and start making a difference. — Mark Driscoll

I'm a huge reader ... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week. — Jodie Sweetin

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd. — Alberto Manguel

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died. — Joyce Rachelle

I'm also a book nerd so aside from my life and my opinions, you could say my lyrics are inspired in some sense by the writings of Guy Debord, John Berryman, Georges Bataille, T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, Bukowski, Artaud, Derrick Jensen and bunch of other people. — Dominic Owen Mallary

Your inner book nerd will have a book nerd orgasm. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there and all the comic book writers I know and then a lot of actors, too, and you hang out with these people for just a few days, but you hang out with them all day, every day. It's like camp - it's like a weird camp. I love it. — Brea Grant

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. — Mindy Kaling

A smell of burned hair and cotton wafted into the air as I spun toward my desk. There was a low whine from the desk and then smoke billowed out of my closed laptop.
I gaped.
My precious, perfectly brand new laptop I cherished like one would a small child.
Son of a mother ...
Friend or not, it was so on — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight. — Rainbow Rowell

Hell hath no correctly punctuated fury like a book nerd scorned. — Alexandra Petri

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me. — Brian Posehn

The question is, 'how bad at sports were you as a kid?' I grew up near where they film Jersey Shore. If you weren't tan, muscular, and book-averse, you were a dork and a nerd and a geek and stuff. I remember being into Gary Larsen, Stephen Wright, Peter Sellers ... — Demetri Martin

The last thing you want to do is turn into a nerd like your father, nose always buried in a book, living like a tramp just to get one of those useless PhD thingies. And look where his posh Cambridge education got him - a flipping poet, for chrissakes! — Tabitha Suzuma

I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done. — Julia Jones

Judging books by their covers is seriously underrated, and any book nerd who claims never to have done it is probably lying. — Amy Smith

Yeah. Book nerd rule number three: never ever, leave an unfinished book at home. — J.J. McAvoy

I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick." — Franz Drameh

Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills. — Laura Penny

I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs. — Rebecca McNutt