Bookish Spirits Mugs

Self-Help Books For The Newly Dead

Frontispiece to 'A Book of Bargains' by V O'Sullivan- Depicts an Apparition from one of the Stories

Drunk And Orderly

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

'HA Ha! One good idea doesn't make a genius!'

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

Spiritualism: Meet the Authors.

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

Marcel Proust

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Reading in the family.

Meet The Author's Wife. The author is too surly to talk.

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

'If you're using this for research into your next book then you can sleep in the spare room!'

"I'm sick of writing book reports on spec."

John Galsworthy

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

DATING FOR NON-DUMMIES

"That's a beautiful poem, but of course, if you took the road less traveled, we'd make sure you have your GPS."

"I've picked up too many nasty Hobbits."

The Great Banzinni discovers the oldest trick in the book.

I like a good whodunit.

William Blake.

'I found some information in this book for my school paper. How do I click 'print'?'

Michel De Montaigne is quotes as saying the following...

'Camilo José Cela'

'It's okay dear. He's my ghostwriter.'

Fairy narratives

"I've got about 3 more inches before I'm willing to get reading glasses."

Edna O'Brien

"School is loverly this time of year."

Book in library - 'Crash tests for dummies' (being read by a crash test dummy).

Chicken Soup For The Soul's Soul.

My youthful jacket blurb writing showed such excitement, he thought with a sigh.