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!"

Marcel Proust

"Some Debussy, Igor."

Bug reading book has antennae that are lights.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

'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?"

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

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Reading in the family.

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

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

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

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

Theory of Gravity

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

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

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

The Human Ape.

(The really ugly duckling)

Anna Burns

"This part of space feels especially weird right now."

William Blake.

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