Bookish Sleeper Prints

"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."

Marcel Proust

'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!'

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

Reading in the family.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

"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.

Theory of Gravity

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

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

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

The Human Ape.

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

William Blake.

(The really ugly duckling)

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

"Can I come with you? I need a grant."

English major will work for food.

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

'I'm not a famous writer, but I do make enough money to travel the country and sleep in my car.'

Edna O'Brien

Summer Reads - Fall Reads!

"School is loverly this time of year."

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.