And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Revelation 10:4<\/i><\/p>\n
7619<\/b> Record Books And Writers<\/b><\/p>\n
MOST BOOKS: The German writer Johann Krunitz wrote an Encyclopedia of 242 volumes\u2014in longhand\u2014and also published 438 other big books. <\/p>\n
MOST NOVELS: Kathleen Lindsay of South Africa published a total of 904 novels. And, during a forty-year period, British writer John Creasey wrote 564 books, totalling over four hundred million words. <\/p>\n
FASTEST NOVELISTS: Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, dictated up to 10,000 words a day and could work simultaneously on seven novels. His 140 titles enjoyed a circulation of one hundred seventy million copies. The above-mentioned John Creasey had similar output: 15 to 20 novels a year. Once, he wrote two books in a week, with only a half day off. <\/p>\n
MOST PROLIFIC: He created Billy Bunter and the boys\u2019 comics Gem and Magnet. His lifetime output of written words was about 100 million words. He enjoyed the advantage of electric light rather than candlelight, and of being single. His name: Charles Hamilton<\/p>\n
7620<\/b> More Writers\u2019 Records<\/b><\/p>\n
YOUNGEST AUTHOR: The 4-year-old Dorothy Straight of Washington, DC, wrote How the World Began<\/i> in 1962. The book was published by Pantheon Books, New York. <\/p>\n
MOST CHILDREN\u2019S STORIES: Enid Blyton of England wrote 600 books of children\u2019s stories. In 1955 alone, she put out 59 titles. Her stories have been translated into a record 128 languages. <\/p>\n
7621<\/b> To Immortalize Her<\/b><\/p>\n
The historian, Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/i>, was once the rival in love of a certain French physician. Both were enamoured of the beautiful Lady Elizabeth Foster. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Lady Elizabeth is sick of your foolish chatter,\u201d remarked the physician, \u201cI will cure her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Lady Elizabeth is dead from your prescriptions,\u201d retorted Gibbon, \u201cI will immortalize her.\u201d<\/p>\n
7622<\/b> Talking To 30 Million People<\/b><\/p>\n
Wendell Phillips was one of the most polished and graceful orators our country ever produced. He spoke as quietly as if he were talking in his own parlor, and almost entirely without gestures. He had great power over all kinds of audiences. <\/p>\n
One illustration of his power and tact occurred in Boston. The majority of the audience were hostile. They yelled and sang and completely drowned his voice. Phillips made no attempt to address this noisy crowd, but bent over and seemed to be speaking in a low tone to the reporters who were seated near the platform. <\/p>\n
The curiosity of the audience was excited: they ceased to clamor and tried to hear what he was saying to the reporters. Phillips looked at the audience and said quietly: \u201cGo on, gentlemen, go on. I do not need your ears. Through these pencils I speak to thirty million.\u201d Not a voice was raised again. <\/p>\n
\u2014Speaker\u2019s Library<\/i><\/p>\n
7623<\/b> He Kicked Own Book<\/b><\/p>\n
A young American preacher was induced to publish a book of sermons. The first copy was mailed to him. After he read the volume, he said: \u201cI am never so reminded of the sow returning to her wallowing in the mire as when I undertake to look at what I have written or preached.\u201d He literally kicked the book out the window. His name was Henry Ward Beecher. <\/p>\n
7624<\/b> Less Profitable Work<\/b><\/p>\n
Anthropologist John Greenway dedicated his book Literature Among the Primitives<\/i>: \u201cTo MacEdward Leach, dear friend and revered teacher, but for whose inspiration, advice and encouragement I would today be in a more profitable line of work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Folklore Associates<\/i><\/p>\n
7625<\/b> Rat-Trap Maker\u2019s Pride<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cLiterary fame is not always highly regarded by the people,\u201d once wrote William Dean Howells. \u201cI remember when I was in San Remo, some years ago, seeing in a French newspaper this notice by a rat-trap maker of Lyons:<\/p>\n
\u201c\u201cTo whom it may concern: M. Pierre Loti, of Lyons, begs to state that he is not the same person and that he has nothing in common with one Pierre Loti, an writer.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
7626<\/b> Shaw\u2019s Letters As Relics<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cMy letters are often sold not as literature but as the material relics of a modern saint,\u201d wrote George Bernard Shaw to a friend. \u201cOften, some impecunious journalist asks me to refuse his requests for material on an insulting postcard, so that he can dispose of it to a collector for the price of a meal.\u201d<\/p>\n
That particular letter brought the price of a pretty good meal\u2014$250\u2014at an auction of G. B. S. letters and memorabilia. $4,250 a packet of 19 love letters from young Shaw to his \u201cundeservedly beloved,\u201d a nurse named Alice Lockett. \u201cI am,\u201d he wrote, \u201copinionated, vain, weak, ignorant, lazy and so forth.\u201d He gave her a sample in the final letter: \u201cLovemaking grows tedious to me\u2014the emotion has evaporated from it. This is your fault.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Time<\/i><\/p>\n
7627<\/b> Write What Down? <\/b><\/p>\n
Because TV writer Leonard Stern often gets an idea for a show in the middle of the night, he keeps a pad and pencil on his bedside table. Before going to sleep, he says to himself, \u201cWrite it down! Write it down!\u201d<\/p>\n
The other night he woke up, scribbled something on the pad and went back to sleep. In the morning he found this note: \u201cWrite it down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014TV Guide<\/i><\/p>\n
7628<\/b> Penmanship And Brilliance<\/b><\/p>\n
A handwriting study made at one of our large universities has come up with the discovery that the smarter a person is, the worse his scrawl. It\u2019s thinking faster than you write that makes handwriting messy. The faster you think, naturally, the poorer your penmanship. The handwriting experts who made the study claim that anyone can improve his handwriting if he really tries. But who wants to, if an illegible scribber indicates a high I.Q.?<\/p>\n
7629<\/b> Testing For Southpaws<\/b><\/p>\n
Are you ever confused over whether you are really right-handed or left-handed? In The New England Journal of Medicine<\/i>, Dr. J. E. Block of Sedalia, Mo., tells of a simple test. Hold up your thumbs side by side, and look at the base of your nails. On your dominant hand, the base of the nail is usually wider and more squared off. <\/p>\n
\u2014New York Times<\/i><\/p>\n
7630<\/b> How To Write Editorials<\/b><\/p>\n
It was Joseph Pulitzer who offered the following advice on writing to editorial writers, columnists and reporters: \u201cPut it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.\u201d<\/p>\n
7631<\/b> Oldest Word Symbol<\/b><\/p>\n
The oldest symbol representing a word is \u201c&,\u201d known as the ampersand. Originally, it was one of the 5,000 signs in the world\u2019s first shorthand system which was invented by Marcus Tiro in Rome in 63 B.C. and which was used for 1,000 years. Not only is \u201c&\u201d the only one of these signs to have survived, but it is used today as the symbol for the word \u201cand\u201d in several hundred languages. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
7632<\/b> Life Of Pencil<\/b><\/p>\n
The modern 7-inch-long lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles in length; it can write an average of 45,000 words; and it can take an average of 17 sharpenings. <\/p>\n
7633<\/b> The Modern Typewriter<\/b><\/p>\n
Credit for the first modern typewriter, belongs to Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor who lived in Milwaukee in the 1860s. On the Sholes model, as on present-day manual typewriters, each character was set on the end of a metal bar which struck the paper when its key was pressed. The keys were arranged alphabetically. But there was a snag. When an operator had learnt to type at speed, the bars attached to letters that lay close together on the keyboard became entangled with one another. One way out of the difficulty was to find out which letters were most often used in English, and then to re-site them on the keyboard as far from each other as possible. <\/p>\n
This had the effect of reducing the chance of clashing type bars. In this way was born the QWERTY keyboard, named after the first six letters on the top line. <\/p>\n
7634<\/b> Typographical Error<\/b><\/p>\n
The typographical error<\/p>\n
Is a slippery thing and sly<\/p>\n
You can hunt till you are dizzy, <\/p>\n
But it somehow will get by. <\/p>\n
Till the forms are off the presses, <\/p>\n
It is strange how still it keeps<\/p>\n
It shrinks down into a corner<\/p>\n
And it never stirs or peeps, <\/p>\n
That typographical error, <\/p>\n
Too small for human eyes! <\/p>\n
Till the ink is on the paper<\/p>\n
When it grows to mountain size, <\/p>\n
The boss he stares with horror, <\/p>\n
Then he grabs his hair and groans. <\/p>\n
The copyreader drops his head<\/p>\n
Upon his hands and moans\u2014<\/p>\n
The remainder of the issues<\/p>\n
May be clean as clean can be, <\/p>\n
But that typographical error<\/p>\n
Is the only thing you see. <\/p>\n
\u2014Author Unknown<\/p>\n
7635<\/b> Errors Still<\/b><\/p>\n
The French Academy took 297 years to write a book of 263 pages. Grammaire de L\u2019Academie Francaise<\/i> was written from 1635 to 1932 and when finally published, it contained fifty errors. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
7636<\/b> Corrected Mistake<\/b><\/p>\n
A young reporter called on Mark Twain to interview him. He found the writer comfortably ensconced in bed, reading. The reporter asked Mark for the story of his life. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell,\u201d drawled Mark, \u201cin the days of George III, when I was a young man I used to \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPardon me,\u201d interupted the young man, \u201cI know that you are no spring chicken, but you couldn\u2019t possibly have been living in the time of George III.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFine, my boy,\u201d exclaimed Mark. \u201cI heartily congratulate you. You are the first and only reporter I\u2019ve ever met who corrected a mistake before it appeared in print.\u201d<\/p>\n
7637<\/b> Epigram On Writing<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Weak ink is better than a strong memory. <\/p>\n
\u2014Chinese Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2022 Reading maketh a full man; conference maketh a ready man; and writing maketh an accurate man. <\/p>\n
\u2022 If you would not be forgotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. <\/p>\n
\u2014Franklin<\/p>\n
\u2022 To the thousands of students who wrote to poet Carl Sandburg, asking how to become a writer, Sandburg replied: \u201cSolitude and prayer\u2014then go on from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Harry Golden<\/p>\n
\u2022 The surest way to be a failure as a writer is to set out with determination to please everyone. <\/p>\n
\u2014Herbert Swope<\/p>\n
\u2022 A wicked book cannot repent. <\/p>\n
\u2014Old Proverb<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Books ; Literature, Christian. <\/p>\n
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