Bookish Daydreamer Gifts

Thinking.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"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!"

'I've had a few short stories published, but I'd really like to write 'the Great American How to Write a Novel.''

Marcel Proust

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

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

'If you're using this for research into your next book then you can sleep in the spare room!'

Reading in the family.

Man read's Newton's 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principa Mathematica' and says: 'Blimey Isaac, this is, er, pretty heavy stuff.'

"This X-Ray proves conclusively that you don't have a book in you."

John Galsworthy

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

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

Bestsellers have sold so well there are none at all on the shelves.

'My building doesn't allow pets. Do you think the teacher will buy it if I tell her dust bunnies ate my homework?'

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

Theory of Gravity

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

Are you printing your own book? No, it's my mailing to agents!

'These days my approach is to start with the Booker Prize acceptance speech and work backwards...'

(The really ugly duckling)

The Human Ape.

"This manuscript is unbelievably mature for a first novel but, sadly, we don't publish the unbelievable."

"Can I come with you? I need a grant."

English major will work for food.

Through the Looking Glass - The Knight's Song

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

Samuel Beckett