"You can’t just sit down and write a book. That’s not how books get written. Books get written by living your life, by being open to the world, by paying attention."
The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the broadsword but by the scrape of the pen.