If (name of author) were alive today...

[toni]

I wish I was the first one who started this.


If _________ (author) were alive today, you would ask/tell/give him/her _________..


Here's mine:

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, I would give him my sister's Blush makeup in fairypink glow.

[Shalot]

If Virginia Woolf were alive today I would give her Prozac.

[cuppajoe_9]

If William Shakespeare were alive today, he would be frantically clawing at the lid of his coffin.

[Shalot]

If Joseph Conrad were alive today I would take away his pen.

[Scheherazade]

If Joseph Conrad were alive today I would take away his pen.And offer him a laptop so that he could write more efficiently and quickly?

:D

If Kafka were alive today, I would give him a PS 3.

[Shalot]

And offer him a laptop so that he could write more efficiently and quickly?

:D




No, sorry, all he gets is typewriter with broken keys.:p

[Shakira]

If William Shakespeare were alive today, he would be frantically clawing at the lid of his coffin.

I definitely agree with you now with the horrendous :sick: movie version of Othello that India has produced. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Pendragon]

If Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce or Finley Peter Dunne were alive today, I'd hand them a copy of The New York Times. These well-known, sharp-tongued wits would have a heyday with current events! :)

[Shadowsarin]

If JK Rowling were alive today, I would....Oh wait, sorry, I was just thinking wishfully...:p



(Note - This was a light-hearted joke, and any HP nuts who are planning on castraiting me, please don't!)

[Nightshade]

:lol:
If E.R. Burroughs were alive today Id give him a pile of books on child development, the habits of apes and a subscription to a nature magazine.

[Pendragon]

If Stephen Crane were alive today, I would try to get him interested in art classes. Anything to keep him from starting to write! :lol:

[ennison]

If Ambrose Bierce was alive today I wouldnt be surprised.

[Pendragon]

If Ambrose Bierce was alive today I wouldnt be surprised.I'll second the motion! :thumbs_up

[toni]

If Edith Wharton were alive today, she would be writing novels based on modern society...

[andave_ya]

If Jane Austen were alive today, she'd renounce all modern society and go live among the Janeites.

[Pendragon]

If Sherwood Anderson were alive today, I'd tell him to stay across the mountain in his cabin and plant Zucchini. At least you can eat them...http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/sleep.gif

[Domer121]

If Sir Thomas More were alive I think he would be able to buy his own island, like Johnny Depp, and then have his own Utopia..

[Pendragon]

If William Shakespeare were alive today, his plays would probably be x-rated...
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/smug.gif

[THX-1138]

if Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were alive they'll see their novels being lived every day.

[Pendragon]

I know he's and artist, not a writer, but if Jackson Pollock were alive today, I'd tell him, "Imagination or not, it still looks like you spilled your paints on the floor and called it art." http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Ohyeah.gif

[andave_ya]

aw, come on, he's not that bad. I thought the same until my art teacher explained the school of thinking behind Abstract Expressionism. Then it makes sense.

[Pendragon]

If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were alive today, he would quickly die of a massive coronary after seeing what some "authors" have done with his characters...

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/SherlockSmall.gif

[toni]

If Franz Kafka were alive today, he'd probably be too shy to attend book signings.

[The Comedian]

If Edward Abbey were alive today, he'd in jail, drunk, dead, or sad as hell. . .or all of these at once.

[JuniperWoolf]

If Rimbaud were alive today, they'd dose him with ritalin.

[Dinkleberry2010]

If James Joyce were alive today, I'd ask him to tell me what Finnegans Wake was about.

[Dr Jekyll]

If John Keats were alive today, I would give him a golden laptop with Windows 7 just to get him to finish his Hyperion. :santasmil

Of course, I'm just kidding. :lol: With all due respect to one of my favourite poets.

[JuniperWoolf]

If H.P. Lovecraft were alive today, he'd probably still be living at his mom's house.