"Oh!" said Landen, reading a letter. "A rejection from my publisher. They didn't think Fatal Parachuting Mistakes and How to Avoid Making Them Again … - Jasper Fforde

"Don't believe this," murmured Miss Havisham. "It's all poppycock. Her majesty is a verb short of a sentence."

"Write is only the word we use to describe the recording process," replied Snell as we walked along. "The Well of Lost Plots is where we interface the writer's imagination with the characters and plots so that it will make sense in the reader's mind. After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer—perhaps more."

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?