Manuscript Muncher Pillows

'Your manuscript was delicious.'

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

"Do me next."

Gaston's Gourmet Truckstop

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

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"Moby Richard by Herman Melville" "Wonderful! Not sure about the title—let's discuss editor."

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

'You can't reject my manuscript without due process!'

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

'Thank god for the spellchecker!'

I'll be honest, Jerry - When you invited me to join your book club, this is not what I expected.

"Can you rewrite this in 3-D?"

Publisher to writer: 'It was a great read, except I collided with run-on sentences, tripped over broken English and got knocked about by a dangling participle.'

"We do not usually acknowledge unsolicited manuscripts, but we want you to know that we tore yours into tiny pieces. Yours sincerely, The Op-Ed Page."

Alphabet soup

"No wonder you can't write, you're not plugged in!"

"I'm in here, rereading the great poets, myself among them."

"Like you, I'm a bit of a glutton, but I need to monitor my food intake otherwise I could be too heavy to fly..."

"I just spoon-fed the media a pound of really old salmon."

'It's a slice of life...I cut a long story short.'

"Here it is - my novel. I'll be interested to hear your compliments."

"Constructive criticism? It says I can't write my way out of a paper bag, and you call it constructive criticism."

"Garbage in, great books out."

'It's not enough that you want to publish it, you must beg for it.'

"They're sound bites."

'Any more napkins, Hon? Annie's got cone leakage.'

"It needs a lot of editing."

Are you printing your own book? No, it's my mailing to agents!

"For goodness sake brother. Haven't you finished that note to the milkman yet?"

'Your book will definitely be a best seller; it just needs a complete new set of words.'

Tomb of the unpublished author.

"The quality of the writing is an embarrassment, it has no style, no fluency, no soul!"

"My daddy doesn't have a real job...he's a writer!"

Watch the author miss his deadline 4 to 7