Novelist Wannabe Mugs

"I could get knocked down by a bus tomorrow..."

"I need some help to write my self-help book..."

I should be a writer when I grow up...

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

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

"Meet The Author"

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

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

The DaVinci Code

Reading my Critics

Something Wilted This Way Comes.

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Honoré de Balzac

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

John Bunyan

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

"I try to write a little bit every day."

Duke of Clarence (Later William IV) Promenading with Family

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Murder in Apartment 6-K

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

Iris Murdoch