The Great Man... Walks Across His Century

Writing Is No Trouble: You Just Jot Down Ideas As They Occur To You. The Jotting Is Simplicity Itself - It Is The Occurring Which Is Difficult.

The Landlady Of A Boarding-house Is A Parallelogram - That Is, An Oblong Angular Figure, Which Cannot Be Described, But Which Is Equal To Anything

To Write Well It Is First Necessary To Have Something To Say.

The Writing Of Solid, Instructive Stuff Fortified By Facts And Figures Is Easy Enough. There Is No Trouble In Writing A Scientific Treatise On The Folk-lore Of Central China, Or A Statistical Enquiry Into The Declining Population Of Prince Edward Island. But To Write Something Out Of One's Own Mind, Worth Reading For Its Own Sake, Is An Arduous Contrivance Only To Be Achieved In Fortunate Moments, Few And Far In Between. Personally, I Would Sooner Have Written Alice In Wonderland Than The Whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

What We Call Creative Work, Ought Not To Be Called Work At All, Because It Isn't. I Imagine That Thomas Edison Never Did A Day's Work In His Last Fifty Years.