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.

Marcel Proust

Sergio dreams of being broke.

"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.'

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

"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

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

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

Theory of Gravity

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

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

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.