Aspiring Songwriter Mugs

"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.

Do you have to write the 5 paragraph essays to be a rich investment banker? Or rock star? Or famous actress? No. No. And no. Then why learn to write one? So when those jobs don't work out

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."

'I don't care if Jackson Pollock did start out this way. We are drawing kittens.'

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

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

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

'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.'

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

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

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

'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.

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

Children's Imagination

'Publshing Books for Dummies.'

"Next, I'd like to play 'Guantanamera.'"

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

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

"What made you start blogging about success?"

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

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

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

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

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.