Bookish Brainiac Gifts

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

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

Being and Nothingness Pop-Up! (book)

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

Audio Books

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

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

"Quantum Physics"? How am I going to learn all of this stuff? A bit at a time?

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

"Some Debussy, Igor."

Marcel Proust

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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

Reading in the family.

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

"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.'

'Oh, Wow! You write math books? That's wonderful! Where do you get your ideas?'

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

John Galsworthy

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

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

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

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

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

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

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

William Blake.

English major will work for food.

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

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.

Edna O'Brien

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

Samuel Beckett