Literary Minds Mugs

"His prose, however, is very elegant."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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

The Proust of Twitter

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

"For just one monkey in front of one typewriter you've come up with some amazing stuff."

"The robots have become self-aware and self-loathing. Now all they do is write novels."

'He was a great writer'

Atlas with the earth, says: 'So then I thought, Why not just roll the damn thing?'

"Your editor called again to see if the well was still dry."

'What have you got for the man who knows everything?'

'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.'

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

"Dad, my web toon characters can't be normal! They have to be stereotyped crazies who are totally abnormal!"

Andre Gide.

It was then that Cervantes was inspired.

YOU HAVE A VERY LARGE GENIUS GRANT LINE.

"No, I don't think I have a book in me. I think I have a chicken in me."

'That's one of those May-December love affairs. He's 251 years old, and she can't be a day over 135!'

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

"No wonder you can't write, you're not plugged in!"

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

A rose is a rose is a rose

"I don't know how this ends. . ."

'Oh man, he just nailed that triple entendre... that all but guarantees him a medal.'

Writer's Block Party

"I feel bad about Nora Ephron's neck."

"See - that's how he's able to write all those plays."

'An alternative to having me psychoanalyze you is to write a book and have the critics do it.'

William Wordsworth

"Today we will focus on how the author makes the same exact complaints about here life, from her sixth birthday and on."

T. S. Eliot