Drenched in words…

From Louis Pasteur’s “chance favours the prepared mind” to Thomas Edison’s “genuis is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”, or indeed Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘10,000 hours rule’, there is no end of thinking that emphasises the importance of putting the effort in if you want to master pretty much anything.

Take writing, for example. As the poet Hart Crane puts it, “One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form the proper patterns at the right moment.”

See you in the downpour (minus your raincoat).