Aspiring Songwriter Gifts

"I'd better get a hit country song out of growing up this way."

"Someday, I'm gonna write a song that'll sweep the nation!"

"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 would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

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

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

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'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

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

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

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

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

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

"What made you start blogging about success?"

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

'Publshing Books for Dummies.'

Children's Imagination

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

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

Fuzz - Fuzzy writes a song with something missing.

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

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

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

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

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

Blind mammal Johnson....part animal, all blues man!

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

"If I had it all to do over again, I would have liked to be the King of Swing."