Literary Sipster Pillows

"My book club is doing some really good noir, though I forget if it's pinot or grenache."

'My reading comprehension is so-so, but I do make up for it with my highlighting skills.'

'Sparky, fetch me an impudent little chardonnay.'

'If this is tea, I'll have a coffee. If it's a coffee, I'll have a tea!'

"Now I really hate poetry."

'He's a superior breed - He always drinks thru' a straw!'

"Barb's such a fast reader."

"Tracey, this is Gene. He also read the Nancy Reagan book in unbound galleys."

"International best seller! It's just a squirrel."

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

Books / Coffee table books

"This wine tastes like a**....Bring me every bottle you have!"

"Your book stinks—we want to publish it."

"Look! I can almost spot the bar I should be in right now!"

William Makepeace Thackeray.

'I don't actually want to learn so much that I become a wine buff - just a wine snob!'

Velvety. And so was the wine.

"Gracie, don't worry so much about your big test... You know, when I was your age, I didn't know the meaning of the word 'fear'. Until I looked it up."

The book is so much better than the film..

"I wouldn't read that book, dear... it's only there to impress visitors."

'I just read 'Moby Dick'...do you have anymore 'whale hate' literature?'

Waiting Room For Godot.

"And would you like a wine stopper?"

"May I say, sir, the staff and I just knew you'd see through that Beaujolais."

"My book is actually about 12th century Etruscan pottery but I thought it might sell better if I aimed it at the children's market."

" will enver read that book, and I"m eagerly waiting to avoid the movie."

"I used to write page-turners, but my MFA cured me of that."

"One man's dirty water is another man's Earl Grey."

"Yuck! Som'one left their nose in this book!"

Poet's Corner

"He was murdered with one of the rejection slips he sent."

Watch the author miss his deadline 4 to 7