Bookish Intellect Gifts

'Camilo José Cela'

"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.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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?"

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

'Oh, Wow! You write math books? That's wonderful! Where do you get your ideas?'

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

"This medical dictionary has had it's appendix taken out. . . !"

John Galsworthy

Will Self deprecation

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

'What I meant by 'quark' in 'Finnegans Wake' was a hypothetical particle with a fractional electric charge.

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

"Do you have any why-to books?"

Pathology.

"Your manuscript is utter trash, of course. How does a half-million first printing sound to you?"

William Blake.

'Death in the 'life' section of library'

I like a good whodunit.

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

English major will work for food.

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

'It's okay dear. He's my ghostwriter.'

Stephane Mallarme

Cheshire Cat

"I've got about 3 more inches before I'm willing to get reading glasses."

Book in library - 'Crash tests for dummies' (being read by a crash test dummy).

My youthful jacket blurb writing showed such excitement, he thought with a sigh.