Bookish Entertainer Gifts

'He learnt it all from a book - 'Play Like Boris Becker'.'

"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."

'Hard to follow...'

Guide reading book called 'A farewell to arms.'

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Gallery book shop - Rodin's Browser

Cook in the cookery section.

I downloaded Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" into it's memory, and now the "command" key isn't working.

Marcel Proust

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

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

Book Worm

Reading in the family.

"I'm sick of writing book reports on spec."

N't. Dear, we're commas. Get down here before you get hurt.

Will Self deprecation

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!"

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

Meet The Ghostwriter

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

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

"Yuck! Som'one left their nose in this book!"

Larry's Literary Market.

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

"I know it's a foreign book...but I'm reading it with a local accent."

Saul Bellow

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

'So...your shelf or mine?...' (a book in a bar trying a pickup line)