Bookish Banterers Gifts

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

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

'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.'

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

Book Worm

Giant to librarian: 'Excuse me, do you have a large print version?'

Meet The Author's Wife. The author is too surly to talk.

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

Will Self deprecation

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

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

Meet The Ghostwriter

'What I meant by 'quark' in 'Finnegans Wake' was a hypothetical particle with a fractional electric charge.

Larry's Literary Market.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The world of Freudian slips...

'I bark, therefore I am.'

"Absolutely perfect! How did you know?"

Eat, Pray, Love Hot Dogs

In writing War and Peace, Tolstoy was going for the big laugh, but the more he wrote, the more elusive it became.

'He's been in here all day looking for trouble.'

'Margaret Atwood is going green'

In too deep

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