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On this topic of writing I would like to quote from an experienced writer himself--a man who wrote over one hundred books, though I doubt whether they are at all read today. I met him only once. He was a staunch Catholic, highly dogmatic, but very devoted to the values of contemplation even though he was too busy a man to practise them much. He was violently critical of most things and most leaders in society--so much so that he abandoned his membership in the British Parliament in disgust. His name was Hilaire Belloc and he wrote about writing: "The worst enemy of prose today is the snobbishness of rules and forms . . . the mumbo-jumbo of hieratic prescription."

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 106