Proof-reader Gifts

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

"It seems my fear of death has been replaced by my fear of politics."

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

Occu-Pie Mars

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

The Anti-Agent

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"Can I borrow the car keys?"

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

'Reading, writing and arithmetic are important, son. Someday you might sign autographs for money.'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

'Am I being too suspicious or do you think it's possible that they're crooked?'

'Let's not go by the book.'

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

"Staff support"

Copycats

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

'Couldn't Peter claim Mr. McGregor's garden was an 'attractive nuisance?'

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

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

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

"Go ahead and eat her, she's a pain in the a**."

James Bond in a Snow Globe

"Have you been on the moon again, young man?"

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Big Bang Theory.

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.