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Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Well, it looks like the merger is off."

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

'You're going to have to make some changes in your lifestyle.'

'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 divested ourselves of a division here, a subsidiary there, a branch here, an affiliate there...there's nothing left!'

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

Iris Murdoch

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

"They've agreed to the merger, the sticking point is who is swallowing who?"

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

"You go out first. Signal me if it's safe!!"

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

Storm in a magic lamp.

"So far it doesn't look like a hostile takeover."

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

My Literary Influences

"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."

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

'There he goes, the bravest M&A knight that our kingdom has ever known.'

Editor.

'Is this your first book launch?'

'The only problem is they're glued together. So I can't see the watch...or change the dead calculator batteries, but it's guaranteed for life...'

'Tommy's book reports are like no other.'

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block