Bookish Dreamer Gifts

'I've just finished the Great American Grant Application.'

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

Edna O'Brien

Reading in the family.

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

"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!"

Through the Looking Glass - Queen Alice with Frog

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

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

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

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

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

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

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

Theory of Gravity

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

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

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

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

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

(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.

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

Summer Reads - Fall Reads!

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

Cheshire Cat