Arthur Conan Doyle; which is great, seeing as it was a Sherlock Holmes story And Dan Brown for something else, which is odd, because I've never read anything of his either... :S
"What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might...travel."
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth. — Kate Chopin, The Awakening