Literary Rebel Mugs

"Hold on, Mrs. Martin, you know that book is not on the approve curriculum!!"

"He's always had a fascination with the hard drinking,hard living writer,the tortured genius. It's an image he's tried to emulate. Unfortunately he's only ever managed the first two parts." "I can't <hic> feel my face."

Guy reading 'Irvine Welsh' drinks 'Earl grey'

"Yes, they're all blank. The art of omission, you see."

John Berger

Reading

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

"Sorry - we don't stock religious titles in case it offends some of our customers."

"My daughter has learned to loath English."

"Are you sure you want that, sir? - You don't really look like the Walt Whitman type."

'Rehab centre' "I'm addicted to Irvine Welsh"

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

'Call yourself a radical novelist? You've not even incited a single fatwa, have you?'

'Sure it's an impressive collection. Too bad they're all overdue library books.'

'To you it's wine, to me, it's my writer's block vaccine.'

"Walden'?! Are you insane? Do you have any idea how elusive transcendental philosophy is to a 13-year-old prepubescent juvenile delinquent?!"

"It's deliciously trashy."

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

"I gotta be me!"

'OK, everybody...'Louie, Louie' from the top!'

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

“I may not know much about books, but I do know which titles burn best.”

battered artist has painted picture of falling bomb.

"I see the White House didn't lower the flag to half staff."

"Did you read my review on Amazon? Four out of four people found it helpful."

Lord Byron

Cake Escape

Graffiti artists signs his memoirs in bookshop.

Whistler's Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandson

This year Mike decides to make his own Valentine's cards.

Heart to heart talk.

'What's the point of a bookmakers if there's nowhere left that sells books?'

"This next song is about narrow-minded record executives and their reluctance to take a chance on anything a bit different."

"Monogamy works for me, but it doesn't work for Enid."

'Sorry, but I think your Mondrian tattoo was a mistake.'