Novela Fan Mugs

Many Americans believe staying home to watch your favorite novela means your candidate will win.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Mann.

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

Television Readers.

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

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.'

Igor hesitated - "You give me that silly old brain, and i'll give you these magic beans!"

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

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

Iris Murdoch

Treasure Island Book.

Junk art/ food/ tv/ music/ amusements/ novels/ views/ life.

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

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

Romance

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

It's great for pulling the birds!

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

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

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

My Literary Influences

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

Editor.

'Is this your first book launch?'

Thomas Keneally