Bookish Recluse Prints

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.

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

Good boy

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

Reading in the family.

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

John Galsworthy

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

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

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

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

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

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

Theory of Gravity

"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."

'Death in the 'life' section of library'

(The really ugly duckling)

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

English major will work for food.

Edna O'Brien