French Novel Enthusiasts Mugs

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

Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Honoré de Balzac

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

Television Readers.

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?'

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

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

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

'He was a great writer'

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

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

My Literary Influences

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

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

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.'

'Is this your first book launch?'

Book Lovers in Richmond

Library

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

"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!"

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