Linguistic Genius Prints

"I mean, I like him, but there's no kicky portmanteau there."

"He lacks speaking skills. He only speaks give languages."

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Wordplay: In The Bag.

The Proust of Twitter

"For just one monkey in front of one typewriter you've come up with some amazing stuff."

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

"The robots have become self-aware and self-loathing. Now all they do is write novels."

"Your editor called again to see if the well was still dry."

'What have you got for the man who knows everything?'

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

'Instead of cubicles, we call them interconnected productivity centres.'

It was then that Cervantes was inspired.

YOU HAVE A VERY LARGE GENIUS GRANT LINE.

"I'm astounded that your dog is channeling Eubie Blake! Has he never heard of Elton John?"

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

"No, I don't think I have a book in me. I think I have a chicken in me."

"This is my own arrangement...of a song I wrote...about me."

"No wonder you can't write, you're not plugged in!"

"I feel bad about Nora Ephron's neck."

Holy Mackerel

'Oh man, he just nailed that triple entendre... that all but guarantees him a medal.'

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

Writer's Block Party

Nocturne

T. S. Eliot

"Spring Chicken"

"See - that's how he's able to write all those plays."

"It's the Grammar Police! Have you been using 'your' when you should be using 'you're' again?"

A girl wearing a t-shirt saying ', la'

"Do you have a babble-to-English dictionary?"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart