Scratch Post Architect Gifts

"Thanks. I feel much better now."

"I'm waiting for my imagination to run riot."

"The secret of my success is combining eggs, meat and bread in enough ways to make an eight page breakfast menu."

"I feel that I have at least one more unpublished novel in me."

Andre Gide.

Kids playing with the cardboard box instead of the expensive toys.

"I'm getting it registered as an historical landmark."

'Interactive TV news.'

Ted knew he had a bestseller. Now all he had to do was fill the middle bits in.

Joyce Carol Oates

After months of writer's block, the great man's biographer finally decides how to end the book.

'Oh, I'm sorry Frank, it's just when you come home in that outfit, sometimes I lose control... so anyways, when's dinner?'

"It's got everything: northern exposure, hardwood floors, central tree."

He's celebrating finishing the last page of his novel...now he only has the other 468 to write.

'It's not enough that you want to publish it, you must beg for it.'

"Thanks for the super pirate ship, Mum."

"Better than Chekhov"

Writer’s Corner

"They say to get over writer's block, you should write what you know about. So...I wrote about writer's block."

"OK, who's the joker?"

'He got a splinter from his scratching post.'

Fred, Mozart's equally brilliant, but lesser known brother who was a carpenter and built his first symphony hall when he was three.

"Nice igloo, but why isn't it melting?!"

Real estate: (igloo): 'This is the 'custom deck' for 'enjoying the midnight sun and viewing the northern lights!'

'I can't believe you threw my scratching invention away! I was going to sell it to Satchel for a lot of money.'

"I have a comment but nowhere to send it."

Balcony that resembles a scary mouth.

Women on desert island build themselves a fence to talk over.

"Dad needs the step ladder to finish making your breakfast. The pancakes are stuck to the ceiling."

'You do nice work!'

"Weren't they the people you lent the complete macrame book to?"

Salvador Dali Memorial Playground

"Oh, yeah! A little to the right. . . down a bit. . . Ahhh!"

'You write fiction novels as a side line, don't you?'

Aspiring author