“ Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth – I rap my knuckles on the table – you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue. David Mitchell
“ Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times. Compton Gage
“ He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together: Compton Gage