Bookish Gifts

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

Michel De Montaigne is quotes as saying the following...

'If you can't afford representation, the court will appoint a lawyer and a book agent.'

William Blake.

"She's always got her nose in a book."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

'They said 'write what you know.' So I didn't write anything.'

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

Man read's Newton's 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principa Mathematica' and says: 'Blimey Isaac, this is, er, pretty heavy stuff.'

"I'm sick of writing book reports on spec."

'Hang on. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Apparently that's not a good idea.'

John Galsworthy

"I didn't learn anything in school today but I'll learn twice as much tomorrow."

'Sorry professor, my mind was some other place.'

"As your first novel, it starts out badly and just falls away!"

Bookworms

Pathology.

I like a good whodunit.

Anna Burns

'I found some information in this book for my school paper. How do I click 'print'?'

"School is loverly this time of year."

'It's okay dear. He's my ghostwriter.'

"I've got about 3 more inches before I'm willing to get reading glasses."

"I wish I'd never taught him to read - now he takes forever to go to the bathroom."

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.

Samuel Beckett

My youthful jacket blurb writing showed such excitement, he thought with a sigh.

Book in library - 'Crash tests for dummies' (being read by a crash test dummy).

Drunk And Orderly

Man: 'What the...?!' / 404 ERROR!