French Novel Enthusiasts Mugs

"Like I could date a guy from Notre Dame."

Victor Hugo

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Mann.

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

Honoré de Balzac

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.

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

Iris Murdoch

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

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

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

'He was a great writer'

My Literary Influences

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

"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."

'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,.'

"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.

Editor.

'Look mum and dad! They let me keep my appendix!' - A young book excitedly showing off his appendix to his arriving parents.

'My manuscript is available for download on the internet. I'll email the link to you.'

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

'Is this your first book launch?'

Theodore Dreiser.

Book Lovers in Richmond

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

"Tom's writing has been going really well! He's written over 200,000 words. Now he just needs to work out what order to put them in!"