When my critics see me sitting

Continuing my occasional series on the value of writing, I mention in passing – though this is a reason that I have argued with for decades – that I write in order to use my time for something constructive, and so that when my critics see me sitting, they will not call me lazy.

There is such pressure to be seen to be useful in our timetabled lives that it is almost impossible – especially as a product of the tradition I grew up with which may be changing – to sit quietly and do nothing, witho...