
“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 8 (p. 107)
“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
“Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 6 : How not to offend anybody
Context: As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, “Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”
On the fewer strings attached to China's assistance.
Interviews, Interview with Financial Times, 2007-10-04 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d8a07e28-72a3-11dc-b7ff-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check1/
From interview with David Light