“Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”

“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”

“The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.”

“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. ”

“...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.”

“You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or his brother officers, but circulate daylong among his men. Let them see you and see you unafraid. Where there is work to do, turn your hand to it first; the men will follow. Some of you, I see, have erected tents. Strike them at once. We will all sleep as I do, in the open. Keep your men busy. If there is no work, make it up, for when soldiers have time to talk, their talk turns to fear. Action, on the other hand, produces the appetite for more action.”