If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?

Books were safer than other people anyway.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

BERNARD. (To DONALD.) Donald, read any new libraries lately?DONALD. One or three. I did the complete works of Doris Lessing this week. I’ve been depressed.[. . .]BERNARD. Some people eat, some people drink, and some...

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

There’s a story behind every Bookworm”!