Bookish Rebel Gifts

'Explain to us, son, how gaining nine A levels is uncool and damages your street cred.'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

My book report is based on the audio book of the same name.

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Censors 'no' a good thing when they see it.

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

“I may not know much about books, but I do know which titles burn best.”

'Rehab centre' "I'm addicted to Irvine Welsh"

"Did you read my review on Amazon? Four out of four people found it helpful."

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!"

'To you it's wine, to me, it's my writer's block vaccine.'

"Some Debussy, Igor."

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

'What's the point of a bookmakers if there's nowhere left that sells books?'

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

Reading in the family.

'And I say he makes us look bad when he rides around listening to those books.'

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

"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.'

John Galsworthy

'In my opinion the series should have stopped after the first 3 books.'

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

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."

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

Theory of Gravity

Kid reading report: 'My book report is on 'TV Guide'...'

Reading

(The really ugly duckling)