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- Vigorous writing is concise.
- William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
- Learn as much by writing as by reading.
- Lord Acton
- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
- Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
- I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
- Etty Hillesum
- This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or it comes out flat. You can’t fake your way through this.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 29, 2004
- Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
- Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
- Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
- Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
- The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.
- Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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