Story Smuggler Prints

'This book changed my life. I stole it.'

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

'Get the net ready, Alice. I think it's a big one.'

"I never knew God was such a sports fan."

"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."

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.

'When you get up on the stand be sure to keep your answers short. A whole lot of barking will only frighten the jury.'

"He just found that 'pillage' rhymes with 'village'."

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."

Downloads.

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

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

That lovely summer day, Little Red Riding Hood decided to deviate from the script.

Litterary Dogs.

Addicted to reading

Freedom of the press

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

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.

Trueman Dewayne Lafayette: collector of the imaginary,

Book Lovers in Richmond

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

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

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

Odysseus starts regretting his return to Ithaca.

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