When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.
John BanvilleHow flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
John BanvilleAnd indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
John Banville