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Author, Stephen King, works on his latest novel.

Man at work on his book.

'When I grow up, I want to be a hydraulic engineer...'

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

"So start throwing together about 10 novels a week and bring them in on Wednesdays."

Isabel Allende

Library door sign says, 'We have encyclopedias ... the original Facebook!'

Addicted to reading

'Not now, dear, I'm trying to listen to the Muse.'

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

Marcel Proust

Publisher to writer: 'It was a great read, except I collided with run-on sentences, tripped over broken English and got knocked about by a dangling participle.'

New from Low-Key Press.

Next Wave Collegiate Sports

'Shakespeare's Hamlet word for word - and I who always thought it was a crazy joke.'

'Sorry, you're just not built right for weightlifting.'

Subway Thrillers

'It's time you knew the truth. You're not my real son. You're a novelization.'

'No, go ahead and critique my mss. I'm always ok ... after the initial reaction.'

'Can you redo this manuscript, John, and make it less stupid?'

Children's Publishing - Child's portrait of 'Our Founder'.

You need a new reading light

'Don't worry, she's going to hold the nails.'

The Curious George pop-down book

Egyptology Books form Pyramid

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

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

Meet Zelda Wisteria, author of the book 'Leap, and the Net will Appear!'

'We won't publish your book 'The Life of a mayfly: An Autobiography' because it's only a page long!'

'Thank you for your submission. If we're interested, we'll be in touch.'

"We liked your use of punctuation, capitalization, underlines, parentheses, and italics. After that, we had reservations."

Building Books.