Novel Aficionados Gifts

'I'm not supplying you with anymore ideas until you pay me what you owe me from your last novel.'

Edgar Allen Poe

Thomas Mann.

Victor Hugo

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.

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

Stephen Spender.

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Gunter Grass

Iris Murdoch

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

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

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Junk art/ food/ tv/ music/ amusements/ novels/ views/ life.

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

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

Treasure Island Book.

"No chips, but I did snag the new Hiaasen."

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

Noel Coward.

My Literary Influences

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

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

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'