Empathetic Storyteller Mugs

'Hey, pal -- Don't knock it if you haven't tried it!'

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

"Are you OK hun?"

"Now I think of Mom whenever it's cold."

"On New Year's Eve, Clement and I stayed up all night drinking. Tea, of course."

"No, I don't want to live forever, but I damn sure don't want to be dead forever, either."

"Right now, grandmom's bark is definitely worse than her bite!"

Kirsten Johnson

Three little pigs-mortgage.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

Reading

"Its my letter of resignation. I also turned it into a memoir."

Baby Bear.

Cares and woes.

Mephistopheles

Gag - a graphic novel

Young Stephen King

"We must do something about these refugees..."

'You know me, I'm a problem solver. I listen. I flirt with understanding. I move on.'

Ted knew he had a bestseller. Now all he had to do was fill the middle bits in.

The new boy was teased for being different.

Purple Fairy

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

'Your imagination was so powerful he became real. It happens to me all the time.'

"Thanks, I knew I could count on you to turn my problem into something way worse that happened to you."

"The family has spent all week crafting a beautiful service of words and pictures - far too sentimental to be of practical use."

My Prince.

'Of course, it's your business, but I wouldn't ever start a resume with 'Once upon a time in a land far far away!''

"She then bit into the poison apple, hoping it would fend off the hostile takeover."

'I have this constant ringing in my ears. I think I have tinnitus.' - 'Does it sound like an 'eeeeeee' or a 'shhhhh'?' - 'It's like the murmer of a thousand forgotten souls quietly lamenting past sorrows.' - 'Hmmm. I don't have a checkbox for that, sadly.

"You know, it's a picture book. Needless to say, it doesn't have a lot of narrative scope."