Bookish Romantic T-Shirts

"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!"

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

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

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

Marcel Proust

Book lovers

"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.

Old Book Smell

John Galsworthy

Will Self deprecation

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

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth increase.

"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.

Major Poets, Minor Poets, Free Agents.

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

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

The Human Ape.

William Blake.

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

Edna O'Brien

Nonviolent Clue.

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

Samuel Beckett

Fairy narratives

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.