Literary Combatants Gifts

"It's the Garden Street book club. They wanna rumble!"

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

Women's Martial Arts Center

There were originally four musketeers. He said that the pen is mightier than the sword.

'Rehab centre' "I'm addicted to Irvine Welsh"

"So, what are you reading?"

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

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

The Good Feud Guide - 'Delia Smith does a nice roasted Worrall-Thompson.'

Hold for one more page, then roll over into the bended elbow, resting chin pose. Book yoga.

'No, go ahead and critique my mss. I'm always ok ... after the initial reaction.'

"Hmmm... there's something not right here..."

'You're an interesting combination of shallow and thick.'

'This always seems to happen on your night to cook.'

It was supposed to be a friendly takeover?

Reading

Pizza Fencing

Book Burning is Always Wrong?

'What's this, lad? Didn't I tell you not to carry anything heavy!'

"I've been sent from the future to stop Harper Lee from complicating the legacy of a beloved fictional character."

'Well, I'm sorry. But your mother criticized my chicken casserole one too many times.'

"We no longer shelve gay fiction separately. It's been assimilated."

"Who's going to carve?"

Wild Irv Moskowitz, the meanest deli-man in the West.

When paperwork attacks.

Theoresentful

Dear Author: Benign way of saying no. Sincerely, The Editors.

Chef's duel.

"And to think we started as a book club."

Spring Break. You're putting sunscreen on a novel? I think book burning is a dangerous thing.

'Sure it's an impressive collection. Too bad they're all overdue library books.'

Salman Rushdie

"New Classic Books Revamped for Today's Youth"

BOOKSHOP, 'Are you sure you want that, sir? - You don't really look like the Tom Clancy type.'