Bookish Banterer Gifts

"That book was so cliche. Can you believe the butler actually did it?"

"Your manuscript is utter trash, of course. How does a half-million first printing sound to you?"

"You're going to hate yourself."

'HA Ha! One good idea doesn't make a genius!'

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

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

'It'll never work. I'm reading 'Of Mice And men' and you haven't even gotten through 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,.'

'Hard to follow...'

Guide reading book called 'A farewell to arms.'

I downloaded Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" into it's memory, and now the "command" key isn't working.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

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

Book Worm

Good boy

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."

"This medical dictionary has had it's appendix taken out. . . !"

N't. Dear, we're commas. Get down here before you get hurt.

Will Self deprecation

"What a success! We've sold all our copies. You're a great team! Let's go for beer, pizza and crisps - my treat!"

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

Meet The Ghostwriter

'I want something by Anais Nin... but not the naughty Anais Nin!'

Larry's Literary Market.

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

'Oooh, man... I meant to express that as an interior monologue!' ~ Fred, left to his own literary devices.

"I know it's a foreign book...but I'm reading it with a local accent."

'So...your shelf or mine?...' (a book in a bar trying a pickup line)

Saul Bellow

"Books about unicorns? Fantasy section. Next to the biographies of honest politicians."

The 'I'm Almost Finished With War And Peace' Bookmark

Academics at the Beach: "Camus might agree with you. De Beauvoir? Maybe. But Sartre? Never."

'Enforcing the publish or perish rule, Dean McWit?'