Sandy Page Turner Gifts

A day at the beach

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Bookworm

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

"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."

"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!'

I'm currently working on my autobiography. Would you care to help make page 327 interesting?

Addicted to reading

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.

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

"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

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

Small child checks out a book.

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

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

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

Ok, ok, last page.

Head full of Books.

The writer's world

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

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

"Going to the beach with kids Sand in eyes, food, crevices Chasing after them with sun cream Frantically checking they haven't been kidnapped or swept out to sea Enjoying it"

Irvine Welsh

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

Reading room

Free Little Library

TV vs Reading

Writing For Dummies Books For Dummies.

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

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

"You're a writer? But what do you do for money?"