Inspirational Figure Mugs

Motivating a Tortoise.

Sometimes he just stood back and admired the breathtaking scenery of his life.

' A good idea '

"Do me next."

Victor Hugo

Honoré de Balzac

Bright idea

J. R. R. Tolkien

'Oh don't listen to him! Norman wasn't a motivational guru... he was just that cat in those silly 'hang in there' posters.'

"The raw material was all around me: That's how I got started as a sculptor..."

Cats holding letters up that spell out 'Hang in there'.

'I made my own list of My World's 100 Most Powerful Women!'

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

Barack Obama's To Do list.

"I've given up on the novel. There's more money in writing inspirational memes."

Better times ahead.

Jorge Luis Borges

Zora Neale Hurston

"I'm in children's books, myself."

Bill hits the ground running, makes a big splash early on, and rides a roller-coaster of insane popularity right into the "Where Are They Now?" Wilderness of Forgotten Celebrities.

Christopher Isherwood

"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!"

Stephen King

Chicken soup books

Life is like a tube of toothpaste

BLESS YOU

J. D. Salinger

Running shoes? You have the wrong idea about "fasting," Brother Ernest!

"They called me Dumbo. A memoir of redemption."

Don't Take No For an Answer

Samuel Beckett

Trappist talk show.

Herb has a brief but intense near-life experience.

Edgar Allan Poe

So close... Yet so far.