Biblical Narrative Explorer Pillows

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"Your script has no character development, Noah. Your protagonist needs to develop. He needs some sort of an arc."

Victor Hugo

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"We should start a church where we only read the parts of the bible that are never read in church."

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

"Maybe you should go make sure we're in the right line."

"And maybe throw in a talking snake to make sure they don't take it literally."

Man commiting suicide finds the treasure at the bottom of the sea.

'Not only will you know everything but I'll see that you get your own talk show.'

"I'm after the history section."

Christopher Isherwood

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

"Great - already running late and then this happens."

"It's a narrative I didn't intend."

BIBLE STORIES, 'This is full of battle and other BOY stuff - not a single romantic comedy!'

So … how did you two meet?

Moses gets REALLY lost in the desert.

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

"And Jasper, dear Jasper, with his soulful eyes and great sagging jowl, would be stretched upon the floor, his tail a-thump when he heard his master's footsteps." Penny loved Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

"Having completed the formation of the earth, on the seventh day the Lord rested. Then, on the eighth day, the Lord said, 'Let there be problems.' And there were problems."

"I want to try other kinds of fruit."

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

Ilyasah Shabazz

“I’ve got an idea for a story: Gus and Ethel live on Long Island, on the North Shore. He works sixteen hours a day writing fiction. Ethel never goes out, never does anything except fix Gus sandwiches and in the end she becomes a nympho-lesbo-killer-whore. Here’s your sandwich”

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"I've got dominion, I've got dominion..."

"We don't see ourselves as either a David or a Goliath. We're content to just be the company that manufactures the sling shots."

'Two pencils approach Noah's ark.'

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

"Wait a minute. Where am I going? I'm a writer."

'Too many cliches? Now hold your horses!'

"I'm not sure if the audience is ready to embrace you in a romantic comedy."