Writer Gifts

"We believe that in a former life she was an editor."

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

A dog sits at her typwriter

"This is definitely the last time for Chapter Seventeen!"

By Strategic Use of Postcards, Thoreau Manages to Keep Walden Pond Unspoiled

Dickens' First Encounter with a Martini

"I wish you would make up your mind, Mr. Dickens. Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both."

'Radiology confirms that, like many other teachers of English, you do have a book in you.'

"I don't understand it - no matter how much I drink coffee, play on my phone, refresh my e-mail, look up things online, go to the kitchen for snacks, message my friends, scroll through Twitter, and play with the cats, I still can't get any writing done."

"Yes, but what I really want to do is write children's books."

Novel, Novella, Novellette, Novellini

Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin Round Table

"I have to ask you a few questions. I've written a screenplay. Would you read it?"

Young Stephen King

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky plan a collaboration - 'War and Punishment'... it'll make us a bundle.

Writer with punctuation spray.

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

Caution: Perfectionists at Work Next 1/4 Mile.

"Do you mind if I interrupt your train of thought with my stream of consciousness?"

Writers Strike

"Don't talk to me about suffering - in my spare time, I'm a writer."

Corrective Lens

Tiny Tim, who did not die, grows up to marry Little Nell, who did not die, either.

"Holy cow! What kind of crazy people used to live here anyway?"

Great Poets of Catalogdom

"I'm a big fan of your work."

"Well, instead of discussing the book we could discuss why none of us had time to read it."

50 Grays in the Shade

The Apostle Paul receives a reply from the Corinthians.

"Yes, we still love print, don't we?"

"I write mostly confessional non-fiction."

"We saved your life. However, your colon is now a semicolon"

"I'm talking so much about books I haven't read I feel like I'm back in publishing."

"But I have a hard time calling this real writing."