Plot Pioneer Mugs

"Michael self-published his novel then boughtt up his own film rights."

Ben Okri

Professor Wiles grows insufferable.

"It's about sex and revenge, except for a short chapter on the Continental Congress."

'Now this is my kind of green!'

'Please remember, it's not a lie if it turns a profit.'

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

A boy dressed as a cowboy riding a stick horse encounters a stick with a cow's skull at the end lying on the ground.

"Let's f**k up Mars!"

'I would like to see a little less adventure in this business venture.'

'We were in the right place at the right time but, unfortunately, we were in the wrong time zone.'

"So our agreed strategy is to dominate the market and it creeps profits by 670%. Anybody any idea how to do it?"

'That's the first nickel I took in!'

"The script is flimsy, the action scenes implausible and the plot would insult the intelligence of a three year old."

"Really? You'd like to be part of this?"

Man climbing line chart, planting profit flag.

'This is where we shed all our inhibitions.'

'It would be just like my husband not to like the color.'

"I'm going on Dragons Den with this, the one-brush-toothbrush."

10 commandments

"I don't mind car chases as long as they're car chases about something."

“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”

'It's so new we don't know what it does, but nobody else has it so we're selling the hell out of it.'

Wait! It might be cheaper to just knock it down and build from scratch.

"We love your manuscript! It's exactly the sort of big, sprawling epic we've been looking for!"

"We need a plot twist."

"Say, Bill, how's that new crop of yours doing?"

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this seminar is about how to make profits in times of crisis..."

"Sorry, but your personal life story just isn't very original."

Ambitions. . . To Make It To The Top.

He Didn't Know How To Appreciate Nature

'I don't know what it is. It showed up right after I invented agriculture.'

Writer Will Work For One Good Plot Idea

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

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