"If this piece of paper lands in that trash basket, I'll quit teaching, move to the country, write my novel, and never grade another math quiz ever again." "Let's see, six right, four wrong..."
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For his next book, he would write an epic novel of the sea.
"You're going to hate yourself."
"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."
"Meet The Author"
"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."
Victor Hugo
The DaVinci Code
'So you want an advance on your writer's block?'
"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."
Reading my Critics
Something Wilted This Way Comes.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Honoré de Balzac
Bank Loan Dept. Personal Business. Uh-oh, some loans have gone bad! A tennis pro defaulted and a novelist is in Chapter 7. The bed linens company folded and the scuba school went under! Are any of our loans still good? Yeah, the music streaming service is totally sound! And ironically, the lighting company is in the black!
"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."
'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'
"It turns out everyone here is self-published."
John Bunyan
The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Novel
"So the white whale was really just a metaphor for your mother's lack of affection?"
"I try to write a little bit every day."
Duke of Clarence (Later William IV) Promenading with Family
'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'
Sue the Author 3PM
"Author does not do tricks."
Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.
'Dad's bedtime story was decent, but the special effects were non-existent.'
Trilby - 'Je prong!'
Iris Murdoch
Murder in Apartment 6-K
Gunter Grass
'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'
George Orwell
'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'
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