“I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.” WritingCasesMinutesNeededPaperLettersScaredPocketsFortyPensComing BackBumpsPaper And Pen Author:Daniela Pestova
“That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.” WritingMightHappensSongTwentiesSticksThirtyFortySignificanceChurning Author:Mick Ralphs
“Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."” WritingYearsSaidScienceGeniusFameExtremesSpendingFortyDesksBentBuffon Book:Advice for a Young Investigator Source: Advice for a Young Investigator