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.

"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.

'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.'

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

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

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

John Galsworthy

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

William Blake.

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

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

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

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