Novel Addict Mugs

"Joyce Carol Oates seems to have no trouble coming out with book after book."

Vladimir Nabokov.

"Do you ever get to the point where you think if you read another book you'll burst, but you do anyway, and you don't burst?"

Trilby - 'A human nightingale'.

'Please, give me any book.'

Book market

'I'm looking for a romantic tale of wild, unbridled passion I can read while being pushed and groped on the subway.'

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Mann.

Victor Hugo

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

Television Readers.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"Excuse me, I'm here to do some sole searching."

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

Iris Murdoch

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

"International best seller! It's just a squirrel."

"I'm not angry, but in the future I’d prefer it if you chewed up her Sue Graftons, not my P.G. Wodehouses."

"Oh my God, they're gassing refugees. Look at this family!"

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

'It'll never work. I'm reading 'Of Mice And men' and you haven't even gotten through 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,.'

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

Crane Game. Ball Game.

My Literary Influences

"Regarding the plot of your novel ... what on earth were you thinking?"

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky plan a collaboration - 'War and Punishment'... it'll make us a bundle.

Editor.