the roamer"Instead of writing because he had something to say, he began life with a determination to write a Book of some kind or other."
John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) on Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), quoted in Samuel Rogers, Tabletalk & Recollections.
"If a man has a single fact or observation to communicate, he writes a book on the whole subject of which that is a part. Hence the multiplicity of books."
John Horne Tooke (1736-1812), according to Samuel Rogers in Tabletalk & Recollections.
Thank goodness nowadays we have Mastodon and the Fedi!
[The young John Mastodon once was guest at one of Samuel Rogers's dinners, where Rogers quoted Horne Tooke's apercu. Thus the idea of #MicroBlogging was borne.]