“ Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Gotta love that E.B. White. (via libraryland)
See also White on procrastination — “I have no warm-up exercises other than to take an occasional drink” — and the tricky valuation of a writer’s time.
Source: libraryland
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