Aspiring Journalist Gifts

"This is a hell of a way to start a magazine."

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

"I try to write a little bit every day."

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

'I prefer the term 'whistleblower' to tattletale.'

"Those are the failed attempts at my first novel."

I'm writing the Great American novel, one bill at a time.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

"If you saw a book with the title 'An American Speaks Out,' would you buy it?"

Journalism student ponders which course he wants to major in.

'Publshing Books for Dummies.'

'I can't promise you a best seller but I can give you fifteen minutes of fame.'

A father films his family while imagining himself as a director

"What made you start blogging about success?"

'I've had a few short stories published, but I'd really like to write 'the Great American How to Write a Novel.''

"A major crime publisher is interested in publishing your homework!"

"I called for you creative people because I feel it's time to begin my autobiography."

'Be gentle with me, it's my first novel.'

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

"Whoops - I Accidentally Pressed 'Elevator Pitch.'"

"When I grow up I'm going to be a ghost writer."

'Look on it as... constructive criticism.'

"Right here's the problem, apparently you have a novel in you"

"I fell I have a great novel me."

'Nothing from the Nobel Committee or the National Endowment for the Arts, but 'Joe' wants you to write some napkins for his bar.'

'Your novel has an up-to-the-moment breaking news quality. We intend to publish it in 2012.'

'On Company Time: A Novel'

"This X-Ray proves conclusively that you don't have a book in you."

'Actually, the entire novel is a metaphor of me getting rich from the movie rights.'