A. A. Milne Quotes About Writing
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
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They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
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The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
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What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
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