Wordsmith Warden Pillows

'I have great hopes for my next alibi -- I'm taking a creative writing course.'

'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

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

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

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Meet The Author"

First Novels.

Edgar Allen Poe

"She's been so creative lately."

"Do me next."

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

A Copy Editor and His Dog

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

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

"Let me slip into something a little more thoughtful."

Backfire

Cut Price

Someone who knows apostrophes

Why we need poetry. . .

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

What's normal?

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

'How do you plead, in twenty-five words or less?'

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

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

"I just finished your manuscript and I found the ending delicious."

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

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