Bookish Type Gifts

"I've got about 3 more inches before I'm willing to get reading glasses."

"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!"

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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

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

Litteratti K9s.

'Oh, Wow! You write math books? That's wonderful! Where do you get your ideas?'

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

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

'Hang on. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Apparently that's not a good idea.'

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

Pathology.

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

William Blake.

I like a good whodunit.

'I found some information in this book for my school paper. How do I click 'print'?'

English major will work for food.

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

"School is loverly this time of year."

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

Drunk And Orderly

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

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.

"I wish I'd never taught him to read - now he takes forever to go to the bathroom."

'Camilo José Cela'

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

Samuel Beckett

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