Narrative Thinker Pillows

John Galsworthy

"They're perfect astronauts. Fast velocity followed by a long, slow pace."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

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

"To be or not to be."

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

Grimm's Reality Tales.

". . . I called this meeting to communicate that I had dinner Noah..."

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

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

'Like it? I LOVED it! The narrative gripped me from the first sentence and didn't let go until the final, heart-stopping page! And the CHARACTERS! Without question, Harris, this is the finest year-end financial report you've ever written!'

"I'm after the history section."

'Mummy, the review of this book was more interesting.'

Andre Gide.

My Aunt's Left Hook Expels Uriah From The Chaise

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

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

"But you didn't say they had to make sense - you just told us to write a thousand words a day."

"Oh, you haven’t seen holiday drama ‘till you’ve met our little family."

'He's narrating it, I just know it.'

The Truth

"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'.

"I don't know how this ends. . ."

A rose is a rose is a rose

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

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”

"Tell us again — a little less graphic."

Toni Morrison

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