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'Since he stopped smoking, he doesn't know what to do with his mouth.'

Victor Hugo

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

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

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

"Day 736. Still loving the fact that I can smoke all over this island..."

I used to love coming here. Nudist beach.

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

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

"I'm after the history section."

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

'Snap, crackle, help! I'm lactose intolerant!'

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

"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'.

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

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

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

Reading room

“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”

'I haven't had the urge for a cigarette for two days. How's the patch working for you?'

Ilyasah Shabazz

Inbox and outbox for books

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

'Too many cliches? Now hold your horses!'

"I've found my voice, Penny. It's deep, wise, and compassionate."

Inspiration

'The nicotine patch should get you off the nicotine gum.'

Getting Published

'We've been tailgating so long, I think we might be homeless.'

Elevator choices: Up, Down, Different Narrative.

Writer Will Work For One Good Plot Idea

'I have to ask; do you really care if your double-cheese bacon sausage pepperoni pizza is gluten-free?'

"It's a novel about loss, and redemption, and fantastic sex."

'Police! Snow White we have complaints about your relationship with 'Grumpy', and one 'Dopey' some ten years ago.'