The Best Selling Novelist

I will write a best-selling novel he says. Sounds wonderful I encourage him. Have you started it yet? Not on a Tuesday. What is it about? I don't know yet. Will it be fact or fiction? He gives me a weird smile. Unsure at this time. Do you plan to use reference books? I don't know. Will it be about people? I doubt it. I don't like people. Except writers. I really like writers. We have had a similar conversation for over forty-years. He has not started it yet. "But it will be a best-selling novel when I do," he tells me.