"I would like to be a writer - but how! My style is poor, my vocabulary lamentably small, and my ideas indistinct. Yet I do receive inspiration, by which I mean my mind becomes filled with an idea, and I want to develop it - then I am excited ... to achieve my goal I must (i) Discipline myself - no excesses - an artist should observe (ii) Note down my ideas and impressions (iii) Not be dependent on people."
Manning Clark 1942
(as quoted in 'The Monthly' March Issue 2007, pg 25)
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