“ Critics always praise precision in writing, and some great writers (Joyce, Beckett, Gustave Flaubert) are masters of clarity—but one of the great (and seldom mentioned) resources of fiction is vagueness. Edmund White
“ 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
