Bookish Brawlers Mugs

'He's been in here all day looking for trouble.'

'HA Ha! One good idea doesn't make a genius!'

'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,.'

"Does it ever cross your mind that we make a lot of money because no one else wants to do what we do?"

Note Book

Meet The Author's Wife. The author is too surly to talk.

Good boy

"I believe around the offices I'm referred to as the rich, fat, b***ard. I like it."

baby birds in a nest reading Chick Lit

'What I meant by 'quark' in 'Finnegans Wake' was a hypothetical particle with a fractional electric charge.

'I can show you in our panic room while you're waiting to see the boss.'

"Oh, yeah? Well, we just put out a contract on you too!!!"

Crime

"Your manuscript is utter trash, of course. How does a half-million first printing sound to you?"

'Enforcing the publish or perish rule, Dean McWit?'

Psychology in Action - on sale at $10.95.

Bull and bear in boxing ring.

'I bark, therefore I am.'

In too deep

"That book was so cliche. Can you believe the butler actually did it?"

"Shh, too much racket."

'This looks like trouble.'

Harry knew that his time with the Norman Mailer reading group was over.

'Look - I know the customer asked for two fingers...'

'You're going to ruin your eyes in this light!'

'I tried to meet the sales goal but alas! It fought like a mule and it bit like a crocodile!'

'A literacy program? -- you want everybody writing TELL-ALL books?'

'I'm warning you, Hannon: you're not the only one around here who can play hardball!'

War of the Supermarkets

"You used to fetch a newspaper? What's a newspaper?"

Discount Books: Meet the Janitor 6-8 PM.

'Welcome to our book club. Have a seat until we call on you to defend your book with your fists.'

Librarians and the Karma Sutra

Watch out for the directors, they're a bunch of cowboys.