Writing Is No Trouble: You Just Jot

Life, We Learn Too Late, Is In The Living, The Tissue Of Every Day And Hour.

The Compleat Angler Is Acknowledged To Be One Of The World's Books. Only The Trouble Is That The World Doesn't Read Its Books, It Borrows A Detective Story Instead.

The Classics Are Only Primitive Literature. They Belong To The Same Class As Primitive Machinery And Primitive Music And Primitive Medicine.

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.

My Parents Migrated To Canada In 1876, And I Decided To Go With Them.