The. way to start writing is to start, even at some thing small or less pretentious than one would like. But you wrote symphonies when you were only ten years old, replied the aspiring young man. Yes, said Mozart, but I didn t ask how. How to write The labour of composition begins when you have put separate threads of fact and thought into a loom, to weave them into a continuous whole. Writing takes more care than talking.
Literature is a human document.
It cannot be rigid, like a diction ary, but neither can it be casual, as in talking. Brevity is a golden rule, but a special kind of brevity. The reader, it may be supposed, has not done as much swotting on the subject as you have done. His mind is not full of it. It will not do, then, for you to hop, skip and jump with no bridges between the leaps.