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Gobbledygookologist

"Thank you, Slightly More Correct Wording Man!!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The following blank screen is brought to you by the Booksellers of America.

'Bad dog, stop doing the crossword.'

Toni Morrison

"That's enough. I refuse to compete with Anna Quindlen!"

Freddy is a pacifist who counters violence with words. Sam the mugger likes people like Freddy.

"This new poem lacks his usual vindictive sarcasm. It's just a victimless rhyme."

Penelope Lively

Michael Ondaatje

If truth be told...

Here Lies P_T_R W_I_L__S: Inventor of the Crossword Puzzle

Airport

"See - that's how he's able to write all those plays."

Though this was his third mugging, Tom knew that a good writer would profit from the experience. Unfortunately for Tom, he was a good accountant.

Stephen Spender.

William Shakespeare.

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

Gore Vidal

'Didn't I read your last book, find it absolutely disgusting and vow never to read another, or was that someone else?'

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

Mature poet surrounded by young artists passing mature artist surrounded by young poets.

Don't you hate that? Now I think of the perfect last words!

"They were treating him for writer's block. But by the time they realized it was writer's cramp it was too late."

"Just a signature and my alimony check."

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

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

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Campaign for Plain English

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

Thru versus Through Traffic

Torturing the English Language