Carl at Ignatius Insight posts a wonderful article by the late Ralph McInerny on Chesterton and Belloc. Well worth the read (as is everything I post on here).
It will of course be said that neither Belloc nor Chesterton had time to agonize over any particular work. They wrote under financial pressure or to make deadlines and had to get the thing done. That makes the high quality of most of their work all the more impressive. But it is the sheer fun the two seemed to have had in doing most of what they did that characterizes them. Try and imagine either Belloc or Chesterton with writer’s block or talking about the agony of creation.
