Book Within: Now or Never
It has already been said, no matter what it is.
"There is an impression abroad that everyone has it in him to write one book; but if by this is implied a good book, the impression is false".
-Somerset Maugham (1938)
“Everyone has a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay”.
-Christopher Hitchens.
“Keep a manuscript nine years before publishing it”
-Horace (Ars Poetica)
“…more or less deliberately mixed in all the ingredients that I know are mixed into popular books…[such as] food and drink…murders…ghosts…kings…mothers…T. E. Lawrence…the Prince of Wales…racing motorists and millionaires and pedlars and tramps and adopted children and Arctic explorers…poets…Prime Ministers…foreign travel…sport…commerce…school episodes, love affairs (regular and irregular), wounds, weddings, religious doubts, methods of bringing up children, severe illnesses, suicides. But the best of all is battles, and I had been in two quite good ones…So it was easy to write a book that would interest everybody.”
-Robert Graves