Tide Turner Gifts

'Another nice wave.'

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Bookworm

"First time pruning?"

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

"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."

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

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."

Downloads.

I'm currently working on my autobiography. Would you care to help make page 327 interesting?

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

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

Technology and literature

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

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

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

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

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

Head full of Books.

Reading room

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

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

Free Little Library

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

Note to self: Call lawyer, ask if he has any experience with charges of treason. What's lawyer got to do … got to do with it … What? What are you doing? Tina Turner. My second favorite singer, after Clay Aiken. She's amazing. I investigated every single one of her concerts. Good times. Wanna see my Tina Turner tattoo? I'm not a Russian spy!! What is this, 1985?! Good year. Tina was in "Mad Max" that year.

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

Irvine Welsh

TV vs Reading

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

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

The writer's world

'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.