"It rarely ever happens that the person who knows the most about a thing is able to write. Engineers, explorers and heroes are often at a loss when they try to tell intelligibly about what they've discovered or done." — S.S. McClure, editor of McClure's magazine, quoted in the book "Essentials in Journalism," 1912.
"A magazine editor once asked me to write an article about the phonograph. It was the worst job I ever undertook. I wrote three articles, the first bad, the second worse, and the third—terrible! I tore them all up, and from that day to this I have never tried to write anything except letters." — Thomas Edison, quoted in Munsey's magazine, 1910.