Bookish Being Mugs

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.

"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.

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Marcel Proust

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

Reading in the family.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"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..."

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

John Galsworthy

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

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

"That's a beautiful poem, but of course, if you took the road less traveled, we'd make sure you have your GPS."

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

William Blake.

Pathology.

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

I like a good whodunit.

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

English major will work for food.

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

"School is loverly this time of year."

Edna O'Brien

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

'Camilo José Cela'

Samuel Beckett

Cheshire Cat