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...

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

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

'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."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

First Novels.

'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.'

Thomas Mann.

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

The DaVinci Code

Edgar Allen Poe

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

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."

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Voltaire

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

Blue Stockings

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."