It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
Flannery O'ConnorPeople without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'ConnorYou can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.
Flannery O'Connor