Lover Of Prose Mugs

"Stand aside! I'm a doctor of literature!"

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"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.'

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

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

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Meet The Author"

Victor Hugo

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

'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.'

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

'So you want an advance on your writer's block?'

The DaVinci Code

Thomas Mann.

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

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

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Television Readers.

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.

Horti-Culture

Shakespeare was bisexual

A vampire sitting on a park bench at night feeding bats.

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.