Aspiring Reporter Gifts

"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.

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

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?"

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

Presenter Auditions.

'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

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

"What made you start blogging about success?"

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

"Remember, junior, in America anyone can aspire to become the most powerful person in government - the special prosecutor!"

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

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

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

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

'On Company Time: A Novel'

"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.'

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

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

"When I grow up I'd like to model for a pasta company."

"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.'