Literature Love Gifts

Book lovers

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

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

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

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

"Go ahead and eat her, she's a pain in the a**."

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

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

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

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"You're going to hate yourself."

'If you were disturbed by any issues raised, please call your mum.'

"Meet The Author"

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

Victor Hugo

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

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

'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.'

The Bookworm

First Novels.

Thomas Mann.

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

The DaVinci Code