Bookish Pillows

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

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

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

William Blake.

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

"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.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"Some Debussy, Igor."

'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?"

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

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

"I didn't learn anything in school today but I'll learn twice as much tomorrow."

'Sorry professor, my mind was some other place.'

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

I like a good whodunit.

Pathology.

Bookworms

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

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

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

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

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

Drunk And Orderly

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

"School is loverly this time of year."

Man: 'What the...?!' / 404 ERROR!

Cut out and keep your own Mr Darcy!

Frontispiece to 'A Book of Bargains' by V O'Sullivan- Depicts an Apparition from one of the Stories

"Everybody wants to meet the author, but nobody wants to read the book."