Indie Book Enthusiast Mugs

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Mann.

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.'

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

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

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?'

"I'll have a cup of coffee, and would you mind removing that ridiculous painting and turning off the Wilco?"

Charles Darwin Book Signing.

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

"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

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

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

Books: Soon to be made into a major computer App.

"I'm glad they want comedy... the budget is a joke."

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

My Literary Influences

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

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

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'

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

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