“It’s very, very wonderful to watch somebody ‘thinking hard.’ They think hard. The one way not to think is to think hard.
“I remember in—when I was doing a lot of writing, there were writers around who were always priding themselves on having taken seven years to write a book, you know, and publishers and the public would say, ‘It must be a great book, it took so long to write.’
“And I think I was instrumental in upsetting this stable datum. I went back and I looked at all the classic writers and found out how long it took them to write a book. And the great Dickens wrote at the rate of five thousand words a day, day in and day out, and had lots of time to do something else. And so we go along the line and we find all of these great classic writers, probably with the exception of one I don’t even consider classic, named Tolstoy, had a terrible time. But even Tolstoy, if you will notice, in spite of the fact that he took years to do anything, nevertheless turned out an awful flood, if you’ve ever looked at War and Peace and the rest of that sort of thing.
“It’s a tremendous amount of work there. Well, that is essentially thought united with effort becoming a form of matter.
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Compartmentation of Four Universes delivered on 28 October 1958. This can be found in the 5th London ACC lectures. Track 2.
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