Story Seeker Gifts

"No, thanks. Reading is my escape."

"Perhaps He Was Too Close To The Situation, But Aesop Failed To See Any Goddamned Moral To The Story Of The Goddamned Birds Eating His Goddamned Tomatoes Again . . ."

At here weekly book club meeting, Donna is, again, embarrassed by the inability to control her bladder.

After earning her PHD, Repunzel was right ar home in her academic ivory tower.

'Which way to the reading clinic?'

'Stupid teacher! - I have to do a report on a book that hasn't even been made into a MOVIE!'

Alice in Responsibilityland

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

"Sigh....No, children. These are REAL books. You need to turn the pages."

'Books that stayed books.'

Investigative reporters on lines one, two and three.

"I think I can get you off with a lighter sentence, but it might screw up your movie deal."

Tall Tales and Short Stories.

Tall tales and Short stories

'If he continues treatment for the next month or so I should have enough material for my book of case histories.' 'If I continue treatment for another month or so, I should have enough material for my expose of psychoanalysis.'

'So what's the coral of the story?'

A click of cameras

The press under fire

A new book with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

'You're hooked, Bobby, Hooked on phonics, And we're going to make you better - but this is contraband,'

Sign outside a movie studio: Standing in line Auditions.

Yesterday's News Tomorrow.

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

'The bartender referred me to a shoe shine boy, and the shoe shine boy referred me to you.'

As man reads horror fiction, tree reads pulp fiction.

A series of cameras go through a war zone.

Fact...autobiography...fiction: 'See - it's always somewhere in between...'

"What do you mean you're staying in with a good book?"

' 'Animal. Rock. Hit'...but I can't think of a good ending.'

'What's terrifying is, though they walk among us, there's no way to tell science fiction readers from the rest of us.'

"There I go again, telling stories that make you an accessory after the fact."

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

Book Shop Shelf

"I want to check out that book that has every trick in it."

"This is a 'warts and all' biography with some really great warts."