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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Vigorous writing is concise.
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William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Lord Acton
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
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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.
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Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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