Script Seeker Gifts

"I have to ask you a few questions. I've written a screenplay. Would you read it?"

'They all want to play the star.'

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"His exercise wheel has lost all its fascination sinces he started reading Hemingway."

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

'Here's something that should suit your wooden acting style. How do you fancy playing the lead in Pinocchio?'

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

Blue Stockings

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

'You want a quick read? How about this one: 'Memoirs of an Amnesic'?'

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo.

Addicted to reading

"I believe it was called 'cursive'."

Downloads.

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

Freedom of the press

'I suppose that's where things get ironed out.'

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,

Hollywood producer.

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

"So, do you see yourself as a car valet who writes screenplays or a screen writer who parks cars?"

"The script isn't funny, but maybe if we put some unfunny actors in it and get an unfunny director it will be funny."

Book Lovers in Richmond

'It's very fast-paced. The book was over before I could finish reading it.'

Technology and literature

'We don't know what the final result will look like, but the movie rights have already been optioned.'

Diet Books: Fiction/Non-Fiction