Schott's Miscellany 12 March 2009
ANON'S ALPHABET OF WRITERLY ADVICE #4
Utilize your enthusiasms. Get the habit of happiness in work. ---Beveridge
Very few voices but sound repellent under violent exertion. ---G.E. Lessing
Whatever in this world one has to say, there is a word, and just one word, to express it. Seek that out and use it. ---de Maupassant
Oh, yes! believe me, you must draw your pen
Not once, nor twice but o'er and o'er again
Through what you've written, if you would entice
The man that reads you once to read you twice.
---Horace
Zeal with scanty capacity often accomplsihes more than capacity with no zeal at all. ---George Eliot
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
[Okay, big cheat there -- I was really looking forward to what X and Y would be. Sheesh. ---KRAD]