„Ne lazsálj és ne hívogasd az ihletet, hanem vágj rá egy bunkósbottal.”
Eredeti
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.
"Getting into Print", first published in 1903 in The Editor magazine
Változat: You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Kontextus: Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
Kontextus: Fiction pays best of all and when it is of fair quality is more easily sold. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration. Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible - if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.) Humour is the hardest to write, easiest to sell, and best rewarded... Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
Jack London 7
1876–1916Hasonló idézetek

Forrás: "Kozmikus vallás: más egyéb véleményekkel és aforizmákkal" (1931)
Eredeti: I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
A magyarság díszítő ösztöne; Püski, 1994, 40. old.
Esztétika

Bittei Lajos fordításai
Pietro Bembonak, Michelangelo Piétájának ajándékozásakor

Középosztály és irodalom 1934; 528. o.
Összegyűjtött esszék, tanulmányok, kritikák, II. kötet: Magyar irodalom