Page Penner Pillows

"Don't write it!"

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Bookworm

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

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

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

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

Addicted to reading

"You have issues? Be more specific, what issues?"

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

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

Downloads.

"He's writing a novel for the first time in decades. It has less to do with the urge to create or say something new, and more to do with the fact that all his previous books are now out of print."

Technology and literature

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Small child checks out a book.

"We thought about a restaurant and decided we were more of a bookstore."

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

"Hon, I'm taking your advice and starting a new chapter."

Reading in the family.

Head full of Books.

One book... One book... One book...

The writer's world

'Actually, the entire novel is a metaphor of me getting rich from the movie rights.'

'It's another office memo from that Mr. Tolstoy.'

Free Little Library

TV vs Reading

Reading room

"I just want to say thanks for getting me into this writing group."

'It's a slice of life...I cut a long story short.'

Deadlines, kill fees. Who comes up with these terms?