String Spinner Gifts

"Hold my calls, Kimberly. I'm with a ball of string."

She's just too practical!

"It's his new hobby, string theory."

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

'How fast can you hype?'

"Well, isn't that embarrassing."

The Fourth Little Pig

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

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

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

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.'

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

I figured out how we can pay for the kids' college tuitions. Do tell. I'm going to leave for a year of self-discovery, which I will chronicle in a best-selling memoir. Oh, but

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

Iris Murdoch

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.'"

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

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

Isabel Allende

Günter Grass

Always a bigger fish.

"I'm waiting for my imagination to run riot."

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

'See how the fools flee when fantasy role-play is fantasy no longer!'

"As you can see, we have a very flexible work-from-home-at-the-office policy."

"I'm not sheltering at home, I'm an artist in residence!"

"So, in conclusion, I would like to say that although I haven't actually read the book, I still found it a fascinating and enriching experience.

Storm in a magic lamp.

Best Seller

Fish or Cut Bait

A Young Boy Talking To An Old Gentleman.

"He's writing a novel for the first time in decades. It has less to do with the urge to create or say something new, and more to do with the fact that all his previous books are now out of print."

'Once upon a time there was a really lousy editor name Sue. Sue was lazy and stupid, so she was fired, and her boss lived happily ever after. The end.'

"Is Madonna amazing or what? She sings, dances, and acts, and now it turns out she's a writer, too."