Bookish Imagination Gifts

Cheshire Cat

"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!"

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!"

Bug reading book has antennae that are lights.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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

"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!'

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

Reading in the family.

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

"Audacity, noun. Unrestrained impudence. Impudence... Impudence... Impudent, adjective. Marked by impertinent disrespect. Impertinent... Impertinent..."

Will Self deprecation

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

John Galsworthy

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

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

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

Theory of Gravity

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."

William Blake.

(The really ugly duckling)

Michel De Montaigne is quotes as saying the following...