Bookish Spirit Gifts

Meet The Ghostwriter

'It's okay dear. He's my ghostwriter.'

"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!"

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!"

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

Marcel Proust

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

Reading in the family.

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

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

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

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

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

John Galsworthy

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!"

Theory of Gravity

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

I like a good whodunit.

William Blake.

Anna Burns

(The really ugly duckling)

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

English major will work for food.

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

Edna O'Brien

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

Summer Reads - Fall Reads!

"School is loverly this time of year."