Novel Admirer Mugs

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

Book Shop.

Raymond Queneau

Victor Hugo

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.

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Iris Murdoch

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

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

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

Fourth Tableau of Das Rheingold

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

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

Kultural K9's.

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

'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,.'

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

My Literary Influences

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

Editor.

'Is this your first book launch?'

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

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

Theodore Dreiser.

Library

Book Lovers in Richmond