Bookish Sleeper Mugs

"Cripes, Alma! Kill the light! You know I have to be up at the crack of dawn again!"

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."

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

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

"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.'

"Audacity, noun. Unrestrained impudence. Impudence... Impudence... Impudent, adjective. Marked by impertinent disrespect. Impertinent... Impertinent..."

"I'm sick of writing book reports on spec."

"You know what I wish? I wish there was a foundation that gave grants just to lie fallow for a year or so."

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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."

Theory of Gravity

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

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

William Blake.

"Your manuscript is utter trash, of course. How does a half-million first printing sound to you?"

(The really ugly duckling)

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

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

English major will work for food.

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

Book in library - 'Crash tests for dummies' (being read by a crash test dummy).

'Welcome to I shell.'

Edna O'Brien

"School is loverly this time of year."

Summer Reads - Fall Reads!