Bookish Swimmer Gifts

Man reading 'how to swim' book whilst swimming.

Being and Nothingness Pop-Up! (book)

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.'

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Reading in the family.

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

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

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

Academics at the Beach

"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."

'You're SURE that you've played water polo before?'

William Blake.

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

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

'Okay, Jimmy, you're been in there way too long now...'

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

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.

"If that book is gonna deposit hundreds of grains of sand in our bed later tonight, it better be damn juicy."

Edna O'Brien

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

'I've just finished the Great American Grant Application.'

"If that book is gonna deposit hundreds of grains of sand into our bed later tonight, it better be damn juicy."

"Shh, too much racket."

A man reading whilst running on the word LIBRARY

"She's always got her nose in a book."

"That book was so cliche. Can you believe the butler actually did it?"

'If you can't afford representation, the court will appoint a lawyer and a book agent.'

Coffee Table eBooks.

Sergio dreams of being broke.

'He learnt it all from a book - 'Play Like Boris Becker'.'