Bookish Snob Gifts

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

"I wouldn't read that book dear... it's only there to impress visitors."

"Now I really hate poetry."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

"Tracey, this is Gene. He also read the Nancy Reagan book in unbound galleys."

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!"

Marcel Proust

I downloaded Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" into it's memory, and now the "command" key isn't working.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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

The Grapes of Wrath finally get some professional help.

Axel, I notice you read a lot of highbrow books

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."

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

"This medical dictionary has had it's appendix taken out. . . !"

The book is so much better than the film..

"I wouldn't read that book, dear... it's only there to impress visitors."

'What I meant by 'quark' in 'Finnegans Wake' was a hypothetical particle with a fractional electric charge.

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."

" will enver read that book, and I"m eagerly waiting to avoid the movie."

"I used to write page-turners, but my MFA cured me of that."

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

"Do you have any why-to books?"

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

Listen, just because he's moving from "fiction" to "literature" doesn't mean he's better than us.

William Blake.

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

'Death in the 'life' section of library'

English major will work for food.