Novel Admirer Mugs

"The surprising thing is that Flaubert, who was a man, actually got it."

Book Shop.

Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

Television Readers.

"Lautrec or Gary? Hmmm... We'll take Gary."

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

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

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

Iris Murdoch

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

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

Sign in a bookshop window offers chance to meet the narrator of the audio book.

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

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

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

Fourth Tableau of Das Rheingold

My Literary Influences

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

Kultural K9's.

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

Editor.

'Is this your first book launch?'

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.

"Tom's writing has been going really well! He's written over 200,000 words. Now he just needs to work out what order to put them in!"

'Tommy's book reports are like no other.'

Library

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

Voltaire