
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/summer-school-1987 of Summer School (22 July 1987)
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John Arlott, review of All On A Summer's Day; quoted in Times obituary http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article516103.ece
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“I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.”
Source: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 23 (p. 210)
“I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.”
"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 60
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
First attributed to Johnson 15 years posthumously in a footnote in William Seward's Biographiana (1799), but written in slightly different form in 1764, in a profile in The Scots Magazine of Charles Churchill. The Scots Magazine, Volume 26 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y14AAAAAYAAJ&q=%22without+effort%22&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=snippet&q=%22without%20effort%22&f=false
Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/08/without-effort/, retrieved 17 May 2016
Misattributed
Source: Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
Quoted in the "Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections" of Sir John Hawkins (1787-1789) in Johnsonian Miscellanies (1897), vol. II, p. 6, edited by George Birkbeck Hill
Source: Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
In p. 103.
Sources, The Yoga Darsana Of Patanjali With The Sankhya Pravacana Commentary Of Vyasa