Sniper Novel Enthusiast Gifts

"Ever since the sniper I change barstools every few beers."

The Anti-Agent

James Bond in a Snow Globe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Mann.

Victor Hugo

'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.

'We can't go on meeting like this'.

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

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Iris Murdoch

Giant pandas doing surveillance in a zoo.

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

"Of course, if they ever start to suspect all their TVs are watching them back, we may have problems."

'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,.'

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

CIA, 'Confound it, Ruggles -- we're SUPPOSED to be worrywarts'

"Ok, I found a secure line."

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

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

My Literary Influences

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

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

Editor.

The lion statues in front of New York City Library are replaced with spies.

Licensed to grill.

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

'Is this your first book launch?'

Voltaire

Theodore Dreiser.