Literary Hunter Pillows

"Dear Editor, Today I heard the first bird of Spring...."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

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."

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

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

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

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Meet The Author"

Academic Jeopardy ... 'What Was the Maiden Name of Dante Alighieri's Maternal Grandmother?'

First Novels.

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

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The DaVinci Code

Thomas Mann.

The Bookworm

'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.'

Victor Hugo

Reading my Critics

'For those with books, open and follow along. For those with laptops, follow me on Twitter.'

The Dorrie Decimal System

"Now I really hate poetry."

Television Readers.

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

Voltaire

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Blue Stockings

'He likes to power nap.'

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

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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