Literature Enthusiast Partner Gifts

"Call me, Ishmael."

"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."

"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?'

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First Novels.

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

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

Edgar Allen Poe

The DaVinci Code

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.'

Victor Hugo

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

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

The Dorrie Decimal System

Television Readers.

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

Voltaire

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

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

'He likes to power nap.'

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