Novel Readers Gifts

Trilby - 'Ah! The beautiful interment, messieurs!'

'I represent the Lilliput High School basketball team.'

"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

Cariactures

'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.

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

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

Iris Murdoch

Layer cake

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

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..."

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

Spam in Hell.

Fully aware of the dangerous romance of Venice's canals and bridges, Gwendolyn approached this moment with a degree of caution.

"So, what are you reading?"

"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."

"Entweder Fisch oder Fleisch"

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

"Which one's yours?"

My Literary Influences

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

Editor.