Scribbled Sentences Are Often Better Ones Than Those Written Deliberately Charles Darwin

There seems to be a sort of fatality in my mind leading me to put at first my statement or proposition in a wrong or awkward form.

Formerly I used to think about my sentences before writing them down; but for several years I have found that it saves time to scribble in a vile hand whole pages as quickly as I possibly can, contracting half the words; and then correct deliberately.

Sentences thus scribbled down are often better ones than I could have written deliberately.

Credit: Charles Darwin