I spent three pages describing one room and frankly the room was doing the most. by Henry James

He doesn't write scenes, he rents them out in installments.

Splendid. I remain the only author here with enough sentence to make both of you nervous.

And yet both of you keep quoting me, which is the sort of success your plots can only dream about.

I quote you the way one studies a warning label.

Three pages for a room is why I wrote science fiction, to escape your upholstery.