"She is fashion," said Mr. Combs, who held a party for her six years ago, to toast her first book, "Effortless Style".
He's a noted educator who has written a much called-on method book, "Effortless Mastery," which strives to liberate the imagination of rules-bound improvisers.
With seemingly effortless grace this book moves back and forth between Mr. Page's very private idiosyncrasies and those of the wider culture in which he came of age.
Thanks to his book Effortless Mastery (Jamey Aebersold Jazz), he is also in demand on the lecture circuit.
Writing that first book was effortless because I just wrote, without worrying how good it was.
His most complex book, David Boring, places effortless forays into the surreal in the middle of what is essentially a psychosexual Hitchcockian narrative.
Or take the wonderfully achieved simplicity of "The Hill", whose effortless, conversational tone explores the book's tensions with fine understatement – "but it's quiet now / in every room, and I go upstairs / to stare out at the sea instead, past / a flurry of starlings, heading somewhere".
Which is ridiculous, of course, because that's assuming that writing books is an effortless undertaking (an assumption very much akin to stating that all New Yorkers are Yankee fans: simply untrue).
The book emphasizes how deceptively effortless Mr. Jobs's ideas now seem because of their extreme intuitiveness and foresight.
"Milne's effortless writing, especially in the Pooh books, at first seems highly imitable – until, that is, you attempt the imitation," he said.
