Tax foe Grover Norquist has another book out, one that should excite conservatives by advocating for fairer taxes and claiming that the IRS attack on Tea Party groups helped President Obama win re-election.
But it’s the acknowledgements in End the IRS Before It Ends Us that has the attention of fellow writers, especially his trick to producing sparkling prose: Write just three hours a day.
The president of Americans for Tax Reform said he rose at 4 a.m., and wrote in his office from 5 a.m.-8 a.m.
“My ability to write and feel that I am doing quality work lasts three hours,” he told the Washington Examiner. “More than three hours, I get tired and I write more aggressively. You know, ‘You stupid idiots!’ Instead of, it could be done better.”
Norquist attributed his practice to the popular late-1800s writer Anthony Trollope who once said, “Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
