Novel Devourer In The Digital Age Gifts

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"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

'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.

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

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

"Not that I have the time, but I enjoy reading."

Iris Murdoch

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

Ant story: 'and so they worked all day and they worked all night and then they worked some more, the end.'

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

Günter Grass

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

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

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

My Literary Influences

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

She required plenty of personal space.

'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,.'

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

Fish or Cut Bait

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

"So, what are you reading?"

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

Editor.

'My manuscript is available for download on the internet. I'll email the link to you.'

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