Memoir Aficionados Pillows

"Memoir, Chapter 1. At times, I think I may have never fully gotten over the death of my parents..."

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Gay Times...

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

"Only one pailful? Did they have water restrictions like we do?"

"You think two weeks in isolation is hard?"

'He was a great writer'

Tequila Mockingbird

Display of political memoirs books categorized as: 'Non-fiction,' 'Fiction,' and 'Pure Fantasy'.

Ironing Punctuation

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

My Literary Influences

'Oh no! Is this a blogger I saw before me?'

'Look mum and dad! They let me keep my appendix!' - A young book excitedly showing off his appendix to his arriving parents.

'Excellent job, Fenwick, especially the part where you employ Magic Realism to fudge third-quarter earnings!'

'What? You used a Welshman? The recipe specifically calls for a scot!'

Library

"Well, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, but the rough beast found a piece of string so I don't know where that leaves us."

Thomas Keneally

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."—Joan Didion, Penny, Joan Didion.

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

'He tells me there's one chapter of his memoir titled, 'My Likeable Master'.'

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

"Don Wood? I don't know any Don Wood!"