Edward Gibbon , English historian

said about Work, Action, Memory, Pen, Practice...

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"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."
- Edward Gibbon

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