“Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!”— J.R.R. Tolkien Related Quotes “I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I’ve wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.”— James Rollins “It’s much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.”— Markus Zusak “Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.”— Luis Fernando Verissimo