How much was Julian Barnes paid for his novel Metroland - and what was its original title? Which author congratulated himself for using the word "flocculent", who wrote "A joke will separate the men from the boys every time", and who captioned a glamorous picture herself "fiction"?
Rick Gekoski, organiser of a charity sale of annotated first editions, tells the inside story of how he persuaded 50 top writers to give away their thoughts on their own work - and what some of those thoughts turned out to be.
