Big Book Enthusiast Mugs

'Ordinarily we charge twenty five cents a week for overdue books, but I'm going to have to charge you a dollar for that one.'

"Meet The Author"

Victor Hugo

Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading my Critics

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

Television Readers.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Iris Murdoch

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

'It'll never work. I'm reading 'Of Mice And men' and you haven't even gotten through 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,.'

"I'm not angry, but in the future I’d prefer it if you chewed up her Sue Graftons, not my P.G. Wodehouses."

"Those are the failed attempts at my first novel."

My Literary Influences

"Regarding the plot of your novel ... what on earth were you thinking?"

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

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

'According to this, you owe $57.32 in late fees for the book 'Getting By on a Shoestring Budget'.'

Editor.

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."