Book Den Enthusiast Gifts

Reading room

I should be a writer when I grow up...

"Meet The Author"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

Thomas Mann.

Reading my Critics

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

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

Television Readers.

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

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

Gunter Grass

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Iris Murdoch

"It's about sex and revenge, except for a short chapter on the Continental Congress."

Stephen Spender.

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

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

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

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

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

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

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

Noel Coward.

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

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

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

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

My Literary Influences