Work's over, and he settles down to have fun: anecdotes, character-sketches, jokes, songs, impersonations, come pouring out.
Harris then reimagined them, drawing on anecdotes and characters.
The sincerity of each anecdote and character arc became a personality trait to me, a friend for the lonely little writer who couldn't bear to count her notebook pages on her cynical, chipped-nail-polish fingers.
Anecdotes about this character, which embody the mixture of silliness and shrewdness displayed by this "type," have amused generations of Muslims.
(David Korins's set effectively evokes the sheer volume of Mr. Gray's writing, while Ben Stanton's lighting subtly suggests an ineradicable melancholy.) As a preface, it would seem to portend an evening of the "Oh, what a character" anecdotes that are the mainstay of upbeat memorial services.
Few individuals have inspired so much writing; everyone who came into contact with Picasso left a testimony, an anecdote, or a character sketch.
"I enjoyed mixing facts and fantasy with my opinions, true stories, invented anecdotes and fictional characters," he told the wine blogger Tom Wark in 2009.
She is a natural storyteller, her songs rich and visual, full of dark anecdotes and intriguing characters, her striking vocal range allowing her to play the full cast.
D'Mello always arrived with stories — sometimes angry accounts of injustices against the poor in a Mumbai slum, sometimes funny anecdotes about the characters who took their ease at the Wayside Inn, the famous Mumbai café in the Kala Ghoda area, named for a no longer present equestrian statue, "the Black Horse district from which the black horse has been exiled".
Growing up in a Ghanaian household usually means growing up with your typical Ghanaian mother: lovingly critical, instinctively nurturing, traditionally Christian in a very how-can-you-have-a-church-without-hymns way, opinionated in her ideas on culture, ethics, and morality - ideas always crisply illustrated with vivid anecdotes featuring some colorful character.
Yet the book is chock-full of extraordinary characters, amusing anecdotes and shocking insights.
