> 6 orders of magnitude less input IIRC the following is attributable to either Margaret Atwood or Iris Murdoch: "A writer should be able to look into a room

> 6 orders of magnitude less input IIRC the following is attributable to either Margaret Atwood or Iris Murdoch: "A writer should be able to look into a room [full of people] and understand [in breadth] what is going on."