Picture Book Admirer Pillows

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Reading my Critics

The Little Search Engine Who Could: 'I think I can...I think I can...'

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

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

'Publshing Books for Dummies.'

Meet the author

"There goes our early night."

"You'd be angry, too, if your alter ego was a successful physician."

'Gifted class, indeed. One is gifted in science, but he can't read - one is gifted in reading, but won't even try math...'

"We'd like to publish it, do nothing to promote it, and watch it disappear from the shelves in less than a month."

"In this one, references to everything have been deleted."

The joy of sects.

'Do you have this in a smaller size?'

Learn yourself English.

Meet the author Billy Bovine.

'Burke's B-list celebrities.'

Richard Hughes.

Bibliomaniac

"I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to hurt sales of my 'tell-all' book."

"Good evening. In today's top story, my book has jumped to Number Three on the best-seller list."

Boy carrying Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' for his mistress

Clara had come a long waw from those readings at the public library.

"Jughead, Reggie, Betty, and Veronica—they've all been locked up. But you, Archie—I had higher hopes for you."

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.