Inspirational Story Seeker Mugs

"They called me Dumbo. A memoir of redemption."

Sometimes he just stood back and admired the breathtaking scenery of his life.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Eureka!

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

'I think your father's had one of his big ideas...'

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

"Mom, I'm bored. Do you know something I can get hysterical and panicky about?"

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

Blue Stockings

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

Writers without borders.

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

'You want a quick read? How about this one: 'Memoirs of an Amnesic'?'

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

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

Tenacity trumps everything!

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

Downloads.

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

Addicted to reading

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

Freedom of the press

'To you it's wine, to me, it's my writer's block vaccine.'

"Just our luck. We finally see the 'feel good' movie of the year and it's December."

"I'll probably die an old woman before I get that bedtime story."

Book Lovers in Richmond

John Barth wrote "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." That he did, little buddy. But what if a person spends most of his life watching tv, films, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc? What if my -- I mean, this person's -- life story is watching other people's life stories? Does that make other people the hero of this person's story? Sometimes I don't know where I end and Kanye begins. That'd be somewhere around Kim Kardashian.

Technology and literature

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,