Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography by Fanny J. Crosby

Not many weeks after the interview with Dr. Jones, he called me to the office one day and said, "You are not to write a line of poetry for three months."

This decision came as a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky; and I was overwhelmed with astonishment, but for six weeks he resolutely enforced his command to the very letter, and at the end of this period I fell into a state of listlessness. My teachers soon noticed that my lessons were unlearned, the result of which was a third summons before the superintendent. Dr. Jones said,