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Reading room

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

"Meet The Author"

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.'

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."

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

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

Iris Murdoch

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'

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

"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..."

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

Tesseract of the D'Urbervilles.

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

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

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

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