Tide Turner Gifts

'Another nice wave.'

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Bookworm

"First time pruning?"

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

Downloads.

He has his own peculiar problems whether casting from the beach or from a boat.

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

Technology and literature

"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."

'I was thinking-what if the tide's OUT?'

"I knew I shouldn't of let you organise our beach wedding!"

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

"Hon, I'm taking your advice and starting a new chapter."

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

Head full of Books.

'Quite nice here, when the tide goes out.'

'Actually, the entire novel is a metaphor of me getting rich from the movie rights.'

Deadlines, kill fees. Who comes up with these terms?

The writer's world

'I still have time for both work and family - thanks to cloning.'

Reading room

'It's a slice of life...I cut a long story short.'

'It's another office memo from that Mr. Tolstoy.'

Free Little Library

TV vs Reading

One book... One book... One book...

'I have this constant ringing in my ears. I think I have tinnitus.' - 'Does it sound like an 'eeeeeee' or a 'shhhhh'?' - 'It's like the murmer of a thousand forgotten souls quietly lamenting past sorrows.' - 'Hmmm. I don't have a checkbox for that, sadly.