Literary Guru Pillows

"Yet the whole oxen question still remains."

Talking Books: 'Push button to hear what critics say about...'

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

'He's not as studious as he looks - his backpack is full of comic books.'

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

The Proust of Twitter

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

"I feel a great disturbance in The Force."

'Hey! What's the big idea!?!'

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

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

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

Macbeth: Take Two

Kirsten Johnson

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

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."

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

Atlas with the earth, says: 'So then I thought, Why not just roll the damn thing?'

Cut out and keep your own Marcel Proust.

Shakespeare's Brain

'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...'

Emily Dickinson Rebooted

Al Dante

Books - Cartoon Collections: HumorGraphic NovelsBlasphemy.

Voltaire

Emily Dickinson at a Cocktail Party: "I;m Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too?"