Tale Weaver Gifts

"Put a bit more expression into it..." "We can't tell the difference between the elephant and the mouse!"

Your resume begins Once Upon A Time...I like that!

"I can't protect you from everything, but I can read you stories that make you believe I can protect you from everything."

Homer

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

Having finished writing his latest 400-page novel, Anton Chekhov divides it into 32 short stories,

'I'm currently having my autobiography reviewed to seperate the actual events from my fantasies.'

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

The Captain's a great storyteller. We call him "Narrative Hook"!

Ted Hughes

Bob woke up in a pile of notes, some scrawled so quickly that no one could decode them. He remembered nothing of the night before, except... yes, a fleeting glimpse of the writer's moon.

Voyages of Sinbad: The later years.

"Am I boring you, kid?"

"Better than Chekhov"

'You write fiction novels as a side line, don't you?'

'Of course, there'll only ever be a market for seven original stories.'

Bedtime Story

Washington Irving

12 O'clock was 'I'm a tractor time.'

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

Lennon and McCartney.

Swinging on a star.

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

'My imaginary playmate can whip your imaginary playmate!'

'Of all the nerve!...Making us sit through the whole of their Bayeux Tapestries!!'

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

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

Dog tricks. 'He's doing it right now. Dudley dreams in Technocolor!'

Maximilian could see far away places,but he never told anyone.

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

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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

Giant white horse.

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

Writers without borders.