The Australian writer Clive James, after several decades of experience, came to the conclusion that "Writing is essentially a matter of saying things in the right order" (see his Unreliable Memoirs, p. 162). Mathematicians have a head start on writers in this respect, because we have to say things in the right order from day one!
John Stillwell
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