Literature Hero Gifts

Superhero Rescues Books.

"Do me next."

Victor Hugo

Honoré de Balzac

"He was a very good boy."

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Saving a Heart

The Proust of Twitter

Nervous Oral Testing

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

"Mrs. Berg calls my book report a finely crafted debut and she looks forward to my next effort."

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

"I'm in children's books, myself."

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Zora Neale Hurston

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

"It's time I got a bigger sword!"

'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...'

Christopher Isherwood

Theodore Dreiser.

"Be or be not. There is no question."

"He's writing a novel for the first time in decades. It has less to do with the urge to create or say something new, and more to do with the fact that all his previous books are now out of print."

If the Brontë sisters wrote science fiction

"Tom's writing has been going really well! He's written over 200,000 words. Now he just needs to work out what order to put them in!"

It was then that Cervantes was inspired.

YOU HAVE A VERY LARGE GENIUS GRANT LINE.

"Wow, what are the chances of that four letter word being in your alphabet soup?"

"No, I don't think I have a book in me. I think I have a chicken in me."

Stephen King

J. D. Salinger

Ted Hughes