Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?

I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.