A quotation from Norton Juster

You’ll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.

Norton Juster (1929-2021) American academic, architect, writer
The Phantom Tollbooth, ch. 16 “A Very Dirty Bird” [The Mathemagician] (1961)

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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters... #NortonJuster #citation https://openquotes.github.io/authors/norton-juster-quotes/#1ebb8c49