Novel Aficionados Mugs

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

Thomas Mann.

Edgar Allen Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Television Readers.

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

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

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.'

Iris Murdoch

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

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

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

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

Treasure Island Book.

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

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

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

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"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."

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

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

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

My Literary Influences