Novel Collecting Gifts

"Someone to collect your works, dear."

Trilby - 'Fond of him? Aren't you?'

TV versus Books

Stephen King

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

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

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

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

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

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

"Meet The Author"

'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.'

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"Tonight! Author book signing." "Develop your inner raging bitch."

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Victor Hugo

Clown on bike.

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

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

Rare Books

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

Characters jumping out of a book.

Great British Eccentrics.

Books: The Wit and Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

You've read the book's dust jacket. Now, play the video game!

Sock Puppet in Literature

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"