Literary Aspirant Mugs

"I never have time to read but if I did these are the books I'd read."

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

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

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

"The teacher expects too much of me. She wants me to give it the old college try, and I'm only in grade school."

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

"If you saw a book with the title 'An American Speaks Out,' would you buy it?"

I'm writing the Great American novel, one bill at a time.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

'I've had a few short stories published, but I'd really like to write 'the Great American How to Write a Novel.''

'Publshing Books for Dummies.'

"What made you start blogging about success?"

'I can't promise you a best seller but I can give you fifteen minutes of fame.'

'It's my application to Harvard...'

"A major crime publisher is interested in publishing your homework!"

'Be gentle with me, it's my first novel.'

"Whoops - I Accidentally Pressed 'Elevator Pitch.'"

"When I grow up I'm going to be a ghost writer."

"Ambitions. . . To . . . Er. . . Um . . . Become. . . Er. . . Um. . . A. . . Er. . . Um . . . Motivational. . . Er. . . Um. . . Speaker."

"Right here's the problem, apparently you have a novel in you"

'Actually, the entire novel is a metaphor of me getting rich from the movie rights.'

"The counselor wasn't much help about getting into college. All he said was to study hard and get good grades."

'Your novel has an up-to-the-moment breaking news quality. We intend to publish it in 2012.'

'On Company Time: A Novel'

"I fell I have a great novel me."

'Look on it as... constructive criticism.'

'Nothing from the Nobel Committee or the National Endowment for the Arts, but 'Joe' wants you to write some napkins for his bar.'

"This X-Ray proves conclusively that you don't have a book in you."