Story Shaper Gifts

"I'm sorry-you tapped into something no one cares about."

'Ladies and gentlemen of the press...what is your verdict?'

"Sometimes you just option it because your gut tells you this is a book that has to be butchered."

"As your chosen autobiographical ghostwriter, let me state up front that if I want any input from you, I'll ask for it."

'And here to tell us good times are here again, even though we're not so sure, is a spin doctor.'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

'How fast can you hype?'

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Well, isn't that embarrassing."

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

The Fourth Little Pig

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

ET Mishap

"If I can't ask for more wishes, how about more genies?"

"Your Honor, we're going to go with the prosecution's spin."

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

Beauty is in the eye of the manipulator.

You do know it's Harry Potter who's real and JK Rowling is just one of his spells?

'This has all the makings of a fable. But first lets take lots of tests.'

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

'No! Forging a note from your parents does not count as creative writing!'

Iris Murdoch

' 'Cat in the Window'...chapter 14...'

So I guess the moral of Hansel and Gretel is always carry your cell phone!

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

When Shakespeare gets up early, on the wrong side of the bed of a stranger, and in a clown suit... Later that same day, he will commence work on 'The Comedy of Errors.'"

Wolf to Red Riding Hood: 'No thanks, I'm on a strict grandmother diet.'

Writers without borders.

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'

"So start throwing together about 10 novels a week and bring them in on Wednesdays."

Always a bigger fish.

Failure/Due Diligence

Isabel Allende