Rare Book Enthusiast Gifts

'I'm looking for something not written by a celebrity.'

'This book is so rare it's never been published.'

"Meet The Author"

Victor Hugo

Reading my Critics

Honoré de Balzac

Rare Books

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

"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"

Sock Puppet in Literature

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

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

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"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..."

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

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

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

Graffiti artists signs his memoirs in bookshop.

'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.'

'According to this, you owe $57.32 in late fees for the book 'Getting By on a Shoestring Budget'.'

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

Meet the author

"Tell us again about the humpback of Notre dame."

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

"There goes our early night."

"No. I don't want to see an all-male production of 'Little Women.' "

A.M Gorky

Mark Twain and Charles Dickens make a joint appearance on the lecture circuit

'Publshing Books for Dummies.'

'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.