Bookish Romantics Mugs

Old Book Smell

"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!"

Dancing in pyjamas

I thought I was proposing to Sally, but evidently I was challenging her to a twenty year series of debates.

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

Cupid paints Stop sign

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

Marcel Proust

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

The Grapes of Wrath finally get some professional help.

Reading in the family.

Meet The Author's Wife. The author is too surly to talk.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

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

"I had a lovely evening talking trash with you."

'Nothing like a Romantic stroll in Saturn's acid rain.'

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

' Sheesh! I think people are getting tired of hearing those fables of Aesop's

John Galsworthy

'Would you like a romantic table or are you married?'

'Mom, Dad, this is Jennifer. We met early one morning and fell in love.'

Romance

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

"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."

"Do you have any why-to books?"

"Somehow, Daniel, you're not as cute as you used to be, and you're beginning to lose our attention."

Octopus

"Shall I compare thee to an autumn day?"

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

'Death in the 'life' section of library'