Vintage Novel Fan Gifts

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

Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

'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.'

Honoré de Balzac

Television Readers.

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

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.'

Sock Puppet in Literature

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

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

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

My Literary Influences

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

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

"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.

Editor.

'Is this your first book launch?'

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

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

Library

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

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

"Tom's writing has been going really well! He's written over 200,000 words. Now he just needs to work out what order to put them in!"

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