Bookish Banterer Prints

"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."

Guide reading book called 'A farewell to arms.'

'Hard to follow...'

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

Good boy

Book Worm

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."

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

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

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

Will Self deprecation

Meet The Ghostwriter

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

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

Larry's Literary Market.

'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."

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

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

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

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

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

"School is loverly this time of year."

'I didn't read your book, or see the movie, but my mother-in-law told me all about it!'