A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. ✨ …

Samuel Johnson
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for Mar. 1750)
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A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for Mar. 1750)

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