• I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

    Annie Fellows Johnston: I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.
    Annie Fellows Johnston (1901). “The Little Colonel's House Party”, p.183, Pelican Publishing