Classic Book Aficionado Pillows

"Once you've read your favorite authors on a little illuminated screen, you can't go back."

"Herman Melville would have loved this."

Don Quixote

"Meet The Author"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading my Critics

Honoré de Balzac

Papageno from The Magic Flute

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

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

Don Quixote

Sock Puppet in Literature

Falstaff

"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

'Hello, I'm Dr. Frank Stein and this is my anaesthetist, Dr. Ivan Gore. We'll be doing your hernia operation tomorrow.'

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

Lend me your ears

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

'E-books?'

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

About the curriculum. The contemporary novel from Austen to Dickens...

'Love me little, love me long.'

The opera - 'Please, sir, give us your ticket, if you ain;t a-goin' in again.'

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."

"You'd be angry, too, if your alter ego was a successful physician."

Meet the author