Storytelling Explorer Gifts

"I'm not sure if the audience is ready to embrace you in a romantic comedy."

Christopher Isherwood

The little prince is an alien

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Victor Hugo

Characters jumping out of a book.

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

"One side is for depression, the other is for anxiety, and if you're still confused make an appointment with the cat."

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

Alice in Wonderland-Hare and Hatter putting Dormouse in Teapot

'Of course it's safe. It has no preservatives, no additives, no artificial coloring...'

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Dorothy and Toto

Man commiting suicide finds the treasure at the bottom of the sea.

"I'm after the history section."

"What would you recommend to hold a seven-year-old girl's attention in a car from East Seventy-eighth Street to Bridgehampton?"

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

Don Quixote

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."

Alice Through the Looking Glass - 'Tickets Please!'

"It's a narrative I didn't intend."

"And Jasper, dear Jasper, with his soulful eyes and great sagging jowl, would be stretched upon the floor, his tail a-thump when he heard his master's footsteps." Penny loved Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

Where the Wild Things Summer

It's a picture book. The words aren't called "subtitles."

'If I want to live happily ever after, grandma, do I have to marry a princess?'

"Will she know what this is in reference to?"

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

Reading room

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

Tom Stoppard

“I’ve got an idea for a story: Gus and Ethel live on Long Island, on the North Shore. He works sixteen hours a day writing fiction. Ethel never goes out, never does anything except fix Gus sandwiches and in the end she becomes a nympho-lesbo-killer-whore. Here’s your sandwich”