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Excerpt from I for One
I Speak of essay-writing, an essentially virtuous practice, and not of breaking the ten commandments. It is much easier to begin, say, a review or an article than it is to begin an essay, for with the former you attach your self to something outside yourself, you have an excuse for writing and therefore have more courage. If it is a review that has to be written, well, there, waiting for you, inviting your comment, is the book. Similarly with an article, you have your subject, something that everybody is excited about, let us say the Education of Correlates or the Bearing of Teleology on the Idea of God, and thus you know what is expected of you and (though it may sound difficult to common sense and physiology) you can take up your pen with a light heart. But to have nothing to cling hold of, to have no excuse for writing at all, to be compelled to Spin everything out of oneself, to stand naked and shivering in the very first.
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