Bookish Beast Gifts

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

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

Being and Nothingness Pop-Up! (book)

"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.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

"Would you mind moving to your doggy bed? I'd like to sit in my chair. I know you can hear me. Your book is upside down."

Litteratti K9s.

"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.'

"Audacity, noun. Unrestrained impudence. Impudence... Impudence... Impudent, adjective. Marked by impertinent disrespect. Impertinent... Impertinent..."

John Galsworthy

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

Dog Training. Most of the choices the dogs made for their book reports are logical. The labrador retriever chose "Catch-22." The terrier, who loves to dig, chose "Journey to the Center of the Earth." The basset hound is doing his on "The Howling." and the shar-pei picked "A Wrinkle in Time." But the dachshund's choice confuses me. Even with the ground-hugging physique, he selected "Wuthering Heights."

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

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

'If you're opening a joint account, Dr. Jekyll, the other account holder has to be here to sign.'

Anna Burns

Autodidactyl

William Blake.

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

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

'I bark, therefore I am.'

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

'Camilo José Cela'

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

"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."

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

Cheshire Cat

Samuel Beckett