Short Story Seeker Gifts

Anton Chekhov

Edgar Allen Poe

'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."

"Do you have any of those books that understand men?"

"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."

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

"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.

"I got tired of 'Moby-Dick' taunting me from my bookshelf, so I put it on my Kindle and haven't thought of it since."

Addicted to reading

Downloads.

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

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

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

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

Freedom of the press

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

"I'll probably die an old woman before I get that bedtime story."

John Barth wrote "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." That he did, little buddy. But what if a person spends most of his life watching tv, films, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc? What if my -- I mean, this person's -- life story is watching other people's life stories? Does that make other people the hero of this person's story? Sometimes I don't know where I end and Kanye begins. That'd be somewhere around Kim Kardashian.

'I've had a few short stories published, but I'd really like to write 'the Great American How to Write a Novel.''

Book Lovers in Richmond

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,

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

Technology and literature

'Where do you see yourself in five minutes?'