A. A. Milne Writing Quotations

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.