Bookish Brilliance Gifts

"You're going to hate yourself."

"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!"

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

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

'Hard to follow...'

Guide reading book called 'A farewell to arms.'

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

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

Book Worm

"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..."

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

John Galsworthy

"What a success! We've sold all our copies. You're a great team! Let's go for beer, pizza and crisps - my treat!"

Will Self deprecation

Meet The Ghostwriter

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

'I want something by Anais Nin... but not the naughty Anais Nin!'

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

Larry's Literary Market.

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

'Oooh, man... I meant to express that as an interior monologue!' ~ Fred, left to his own literary devices.

Oliver Twist - Oliver,with the Pickpocketing Artful Dodger's Mode

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

"Books about unicorns? Fantasy section. Next to the biographies of honest politicians."

William Blake.

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

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