Vintage Novel Fan Gifts

Herman Melville Wonders If His Agent Has Oversold Spinoffs from "Moby Dick"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor Hugo

Thomas Mann.

'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.

Honoré de Balzac

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Sock Puppet in Literature

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

Updated Classis: Alice Through the You Tube.

Iris Murdoch

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

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

'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,.'

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

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

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

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

My Literary Influences

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

Editor.

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

'Is this your first book launch?'

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

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

"No. I don't want to see an all-male production of 'Little Women.' "

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

Book Lovers in Richmond

"Tell us again about the humpback of Notre dame."