Literary Fiction Lover Gifts

John le Carre

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

I should be a writer when I grow up...

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

"Meet The Author"

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Thomas Mann.

'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.'

First Novels.

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The DaVinci Code

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

'He likes to power nap.'

Television Readers.

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

Voltaire

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.