Storytelling Analyst Gifts

'Contrary to the popular view, our studies show that it is real life that contributes to violence on television.'

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

A Hole in the Dike

"Brilliant report, I can't tell where the facts and the fiction begins"

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

"On New Year's Eve, Clement and I stayed up all night drinking. Tea, of course."

'This goes way beyond just keeping the flies off me...I'm fighting crime now too!'

"Regarding the plot of your novel ... what on earth were you thinking?"

"Right now, grandmom's bark is definitely worse than her bite!"

'This scholarship application is great. You must have received an A in creative writing.'

Kirsten Johnson

"Skip the funny voices tonight—O.K., Dad?"

Three little pigs-mortgage.

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

Reading

"Its my letter of resignation. I also turned it into a memoir."

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

Baby Bear.

Mephistopheles

"Are you sure that's not a typo? -- Maybe the cow jumped over the moor."

'He's narrating it, I just know it.'

Gag - a graphic novel

Young Stephen King

"Dear Mom and Dad: Thanks for the happy childhood. You've destroyed any chance I had of becoming a writer."

Ted knew he had a bestseller. Now all he had to do was fill the middle bits in.

Purple Fairy

'Your imagination was so powerful he became real. It happens to me all the time.'

My Prince.

'Of course, it's your business, but I wouldn't ever start a resume with 'Once upon a time in a land far far away!''

"She then bit into the poison apple, hoping it would fend off the hostile takeover."