Publication Enthusiasts Gifts

'Being a brilliant,inspiring teacher is NOT adequate, Hackwell....'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading my Critics

'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.

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

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

"If I 'HAD IT ALL' it would it be enough?"

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

Iris Murdoch

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

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

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

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

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

'Well, dad, as a medical student I've got to read specialized literature!'

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

What Harper Lee's REALLY been up to all these years

'He was a great writer'

'Sorry, Marx, but your writing ability doesn't meet our needs.'

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

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

My Literary Influences

"This is a hell of a way to start a magazine."

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

'He wrote a whole book on how to play a slot machine. I'm anxious for his next one: How to Set an Alarm Clock.'