Novel Reading Gifts

Books: Empty Best Sellers Shelves.

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

Frank and Stein: Accountants.

'I need you to change my mind on something.'

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

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

Book vs technology

Julian Barnes

A pen spewing letters

'I like reading romance novels: They always leave me with a warm feeling inside...'

'Book within a Book'

'John keeps wishing he could write a really good novel about desert island.'

'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,.'

Daphne du Maurier.

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

Mark Twain

'Dang! Heck of a time to get writer's block.'

'I agree, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a boring title for a book about home decorating, but I'm getting some great ideas for the bedroom!'

Günter Grass

Fish or Cut Bait

"So, what are you reading?"

Nelson Algren

"There's plenty more books inside."

For his next book, he would write an epic novel of the sea.

"You're going to hate yourself."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'So you want an advance on your writer's block?'

Something Wilted This Way Comes.

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

Television Readers.

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

John Bunyan

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.