Bookish Being Mugs

"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!"

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

Reading in the family.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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."

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

John Galsworthy

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

'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."

Pathology.

William Blake.

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...

'Camilo José Cela'

"I've got about 3 more inches before I'm willing to get reading glasses."

Cheshire Cat

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

Edna O'Brien

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