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.

'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.

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

'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

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

Giant pandas doing surveillance in a zoo.

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

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

"Ok, I found a secure line."

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

"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."

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

My Literary Influences

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.

'Is this your first book launch?'

"What you find 'boring' spies from all over the world would find extremely interesting."

Little boy reading a classic whilst his Dad reads a comic.