Novel Appreciation T-Shirts

"He only likes me when it's through the looking glass."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Mann.

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

'He likes to power nap.'

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

Television Readers.

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

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

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

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

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

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

"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."

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?'

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

Book Lovers in Richmond

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

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

Library

"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!"

Voltaire

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."