Bookshop Dreamer Gifts

Bestsellers have sold so well there are none at all on the shelves.

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

Bookworm Sleepover

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

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

Through the Looking Glass - Queen Alice with Frog

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

"I've given up on the novel. There's more money in writing inspirational memes."

“If I start pressing these, I’ll never ever ever get out of here.”

"She married and then divorced, and then she married and divorced, and then she married and lived happily ever after."

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

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

Bookshop: Unpopular Economics

'Then Jack told his mother they were getting out of the dairy business and going into crop production.'

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

Dress for Success suit shop: 'Can I pay you for it later, after I get successful?'

'Sorry I'm late - I was stacked up at the airport.'

Marcel Proust

'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.''

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

'Why am I not surprised that this section is always the most disorganized?'

The novel was printed and in the stores ... any minute now, the world would beat down his door.

Don Quichotte

"Not now. I'm working on my children's book."

"Would you mind taking a look at this collection of my poems? Your opinion would mean a lot."

"Hey - I'd write a book, too, if I could find the time."

"I wish you would actually sell one of these novels...all these returned manuscripts are giving me backaches!"

A Poet

'My blog has been favourited over half a million times but still no book deal!'

Heaven

Reading in the family.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Man sees book flying in the Mystery section.

"Dear Mom and Dad: Thanks for the happy childhood. You've destroyed any chance I had of becoming a writer."