Horace Walpole (1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
As quoted in The Christian Leader, Vol. 37, Issue 7 (17 February 1934)
“That’s the whole secret: to do things that excite you.”
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: I write all the time. I get up every morning not knowing what I’m going to do. I usually have a perception around dawn when I wake up. I have what I call the theater of morning inside my head, all these voices talking to me. When they come up with a good metaphor, then I jump out of bed and trap them before they’re gone. That’s the whole secret: to do things that excite you.
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