Bookish Recluse Gifts

Person is hiding behind book entitled 'Coping with shyness'.

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

"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!"

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Marcel Proust

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

Good boy

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"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.'

'I hear he's quite a recluse - doesn't even have a blog.'

John Galsworthy

"That's it sorted then - this year we'll spend a fortnight in the spare bedroom."

"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!"

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

Theory of Gravity

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

"Do you have any why-to books?"

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

Academics at the Beach: "Camus might agree with you. De Beauvoir? Maybe. But Sartre? Never."

(The really ugly duckling)

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

'Death in the 'life' section of library'

The Human Ape.

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

English major will work for food.

'I'm not a famous writer, but I do make enough money to travel the country and sleep in my car.'