Bookish Person Gifts

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

"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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

Reading in the family.

Litteratti K9s.

"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..."

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

John Galsworthy

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

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

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

William Blake.

I like a good whodunit.

Pathology.

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...

'Camilo José Cela'

"I wish I'd never taught him to read - now he takes forever to go to the bathroom."

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

Edna O'Brien

"School is loverly this time of year."

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.

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