Literary Talent Mugs

'In today's market hyperbole was up sharply. Similes and metaphors held relatively steady with euphemisms hitting another record low.'

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

The Proust of Twitter

"Mrs. Berg calls my book report a finely crafted debut and she looks forward to my next effort."

"I got those famous last words you wanted"

"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."

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

'Actually, I don't get out much. I spend most of my time alone, writing lyrical novels celebrating nature and the interconnectedness of all living things!'

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

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

'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...'

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."

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

"This is my own arrangement...of a song I wrote...about me."

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

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

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

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

Writer's Block Party

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

T. S. Eliot

'The music business.'

The Poet.

'Brilliant writing, Mr. Fenswick, but I'm afraid we'll have to pass on your 'How to Commit the Perfect Crime'!'

"How's this? 'Quoth the Raven, Nevermore, unquoth.' "

"Okay, I finished my novel. Now what?"