Bookish Romantic Pillows

"By the way, what's your position on some-sex marriage?"

'If you're using this for research into your next book then you can sleep in the spare room!'

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

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

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

Book lovers

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

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Reading in the family.

John Galsworthy

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

Will Self deprecation

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

Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth increase.

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

"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.

Oliver Twist - Oliver,with the Pickpocketing Artful Dodger's Mode

William Blake.

'So...your shelf or mine?...' (a book in a bar trying a pickup line)

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

Edna O'Brien

Nonviolent Clue.

Fairy narratives

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

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

Cheshire Cat

Christmas Tree Decorated with Books.