She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance. - John Irving

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people — because, surely, Wally was nice — would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer — and harder, if not impossible, to conceal.

Some producer actually told Franny that profanity revealed a poor vocabulary and a lack of imagination. And Frank and Lilly and Father and I all loved to shout at Franny, then, and ask her what she had said to that. 'What an anal crock of shit, you dumb asshole!' she'd told the producer. 'Up yours - and in your ear, too!