A. A. Milne Quotes about Writing

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

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

A. A. Milne

Writing, English Grammar, Letters

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 6

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

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Book, Writing, Introduction

A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.6, Egmont UK

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

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Success, Writing, Fame

A. A. Milne “Not That It Matters”, Lulu.com

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.

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Writing, Play, History

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

A. A. Milne

Writing, Heart, Ideas

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

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Writing, Oxford, Cambridge

A. A. Milne (2017). “It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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

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Silly, Writing, Stuff

A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.118, Egmont UK

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

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Writing, Editing, Long

Winnie-the-Pooh ch. 4 (1926)

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.

A. A. Milne

Children, Fun, Writing