'It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
-- Charles Schulz, (Nov 26 1922-2000), US cartoonist; He created Charlie Brown and Snoopy in Peanuts, and won an Emmy for A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1966.