Classic Storyteller Gifts

The Magi: Christmas, 1993

"This is all very E.B. White, isn't it?"

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Martin is much gratified by an imposing ceremony

'He's a little old-fashioned. He always tells it like it was.'

'I still write all my novels longhand.'

"No, you don't get to put your spin on them."

"Armageddon? Aren't you the one who was saying the sky was falling?"

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Shepherd and eurydice

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"Thor! I am Thor! Ha. Just kidding. I'm Tom the Seagull."

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

"You're very interesting, for a civilian."

"I think the most rewarding part of caring for elderly parents is when they call you because they don't want to bother the 9-1-1 people."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

"What's that? I asked for a teal lichen. That's a brown thread. Are you trying to upset me?"

"These are the very weapons your mother and I used in our famous duel."

Come in, minion. What's up, boss? I'm writing a novel. It's a thriller about an intrepid caf

'Br'er Fox said 'I'm going to throw you into the briar patch'...And Br'er Rabbit said, 'Please,please don't taser me!''

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

"Another dry scotch Manhattan, Mike. Make it a double."

Facts of life - The birds and the dogs.

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

'That's not really what I meant by 'let your hair down', Rapunzel.'

Dog chews 'The Cat Book'.

Edgar Allen Poe

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

'Goodness, no Doctor, my husband is not calling you any insulting names. He's a duck and that's the only word he knows.'