Number Novelist Gifts

"Can't talk right now - we're in the middle of a fiction-writing workshop."

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

I should be a writer when I grow up...

For his next book, he would write an epic novel of the sea.

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

"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

'Actually, accounting is an exact science.'

Something Wilted This Way Comes.

The Life of Pi

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

Honoré de Balzac

Jean-Paul Sartre

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

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!

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Novel

John Bunyan

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

Today we learned to count to one.

"So the white whale was really just a metaphor for your mother's lack of affection?"

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

'1,2,3 4,5,6 7,8,9...'It's the little things that count.(little figurines counting).

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

Duke of Clarence (Later William IV) Promenading with Family

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Murder in Apartment 6-K

Iris Murdoch