As quoted in Calculus Gems (1992) by George F. Simmons
“As a full-time longshoreman I am necessarily more a scribbler than a writer. But I am also so by inclination. The writing I can enjoy is the sketching of an idea in a few dozen words — two hundred at most. Elaboration and expansion are for me hard going. An article of several thousand words becomes inevitably a mosaic of ideas — a series of ideas stuck together.”
Entry (1962)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
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American philosopher 1898–1983Related quotes
Toomey, Philippa. "Tilting at windmills", London Times, 8 July 1978, p. 12.
“I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.”
Ray Bradbury interview http://lists.topica.com/lists/gsn-newsday-list/read/message.html?sort=t&mid=911788456 March 23, 2005
“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”
As quoted in The 12 best Questions To Ask Customers (2001), by Jim Meisenheimer, p. 26.
“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
Attributed in Lincoln the Lawyer (1906) by Frederick Trevor Hill — Hill noted that he could find no record of whom Lincoln was insulting.
Posthumous attributions
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
On winning the Nobel Prize, TIME magazine (16 October 1978)
Quote in 'Travelling Man', Time January 1948
1941 - 1967