Moral Story Seeker Pillows

"It was just an anecdote we told this Aesop guy! We didn't imagine he would write about it and that the story would go viral!"

The Little Engine With Unrealistic Expectations

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

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

Blue Stockings

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

'You want a quick read? How about this one: 'Memoirs of an Amnesic'?'

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

Addicted to reading

Downloads.

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

'How much stuff can I get away with and still go to heaven?'

Freedom of the press

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

Technology and literature

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,

'I suppose that's where things get ironed out.'

Book Lovers in Richmond

John Barth wrote "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." That he did, little buddy. But what if a person spends most of his life watching tv, films, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc? What if my -- I mean, this person's -- life story is watching other people's life stories? Does that make other people the hero of this person's story? Sometimes I don't know where I end and Kanye begins. That'd be somewhere around Kim Kardashian.

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

'Just think of one of these as enabling legislation for the golden rule.'

'I guess you've noticed that most of these trespasses are reruns.'

Diet Books: Fiction/Non-Fiction

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Did you hear Sadie's show today?"