Bookish Explorer Pillows

'A 'book,' eh? -- Where's the tutorial?'

Aubrey Beardsley's Book-Plate

Man with barking dog on lead sees Cheshire cat in tree.

"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!"

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Marcel Proust

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

The Grapes of Wrath finally get some professional help.

Reading in the family.

"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!!"

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

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

John Galsworthy

Lowbrow Lolita

"I'm still looking, sir?"

' Sheesh! I think people are getting tired of hearing those fables of Aesop's

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

"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.

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

The Human Ape.

William Blake.

(The really ugly duckling)

Oliver Twist - Oliver,with the Pickpocketing Artful Dodger's Mode

'I found some information in this book for my school paper. How do I click 'print'?'

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