Plotlines Gifts

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

"...I will save you ninnies hudreds of dollars by spoiling every single upcoming superhero movie..."

Soap Opera

"I'm waiting for my imagination to run riot."

'...your hindsight on this project was far more accurate than his foresight.'

"I feel that I have at least one more unpublished novel in me."

"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!"

Andre Gide.

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

Crossroads - fiction/non fiction.

Ted knew he had a bestseller. Now all he had to do was fill the middle bits in.

Joyce Carol Oates

Irvine Welsh

'I've worked out that all you need for a summer blockbuster is...'

After months of writer's block, the great man's biographer finally decides how to end the book.

"Better than Chekhov"

'It's not enough that you want to publish it, you must beg for it.'

He's celebrating finishing the last page of his novel...now he only has the other 468 to write.

Meet the author who hastily quit his day job.

"As your first novel, it starts out badly and just falls away!"

'The only thing that made sense was the violence.'

"Okay, I finished my novel. Now what?"

'Okay, here's an abandoned storage locker with some random data that may or may not be useful. We'll start the bidding at $50...'

Writer's Block.

Ian McEwan

"Don't write it!"

Larry, working on the great American stick-up note.

"They say to get over writer's block, you should write what you know about. So...I wrote about writer's block."

'Dang! Heck of a time to get writer's block.'

"...And I don't want any resentments just because someone hits below the belt..."

Writer’s Corner

Movies made for under eight million dollars.

'Just time to dash out a short masterpiece...'

"This term 'deadline'; is there an actual line involved?"

"Mona has 'Second Novel Paralysis...'"