"Finally, do not think of jour-rialism as something which is always done in a rush. Some people seem to think that all journalists habitually write at lightning speed. Believe me only the very bad ones do that. You must have the power of writing quickly when the occasion requires it, but no one writes fast who has not first learnt to write slow. On nine days out of ten you will have all the time you need for deliberate writing, and on the tenth you will only rise to the occasion and do yourself justice if you are thoroughly prepared, which means that you have read, written, and talked on the subject which is suddenly presented to you. or at least that you have clear ideas and principles which can be applied to it.
"Tt follows that the leader-w can never live by leader-writing alone. He must live and move in the atmosphere of the great debate in which he presumes to intervene he must read in proportion as he writes, and, if he is a wise man, he will always have some other task or some other form of writing which I keep him from being enslaved in the convention of the leading article."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.