Bookish Soul Gifts

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"Like to read, huh? Me, too. I'm a big reader. I just finished a book by Brown. You know Dan Brown? Great writer..."

Philip Larkin.

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

"We’re almost finished, boy ... just a few more pages."

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

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Samuel Beckett

John Galsworthy

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

"This is the book of the millennium club - Bible study."

"Believe me, they are organic."

Spiritualism: Meet the Authors.

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

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

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

The Grapes of Wrath finally get some professional help.

'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.

Old Book Smell

"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."

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

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."

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

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

Theory of Gravity

(The really ugly duckling)