Novel Reading Mugs

Books: Empty Best Sellers Shelves.

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

'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

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.'

Mark Twain

"Entweder Fisch oder Fleisch"

"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."

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

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Something Wilted This Way Comes.

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Television Readers.

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

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

John Bunyan

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

Gen-Next Library

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.'

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

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

"Harry Potter and the People Who Care Way Too Much About Harry Potter"