If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? – Chief Seattle
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. – Russell Baker
I won’t be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose – that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle. – Val McDermid
