Bookish Daydreamer Pillows

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.''

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

Reading in the family.

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

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

"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.'

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

John Galsworthy

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

"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."

Theory of Gravity

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?'

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

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)

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

English major will work for food.

Fairy narratives

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

Cheshire Cat

'I'm not a famous writer, but I do make enough money to travel the country and sleep in my car.'