Why
write?
I write to understand as much as to be understood. ---Elie
Wiesel
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.-Gloria
Steinem
A writer is a reader moved to emulation. -Saul Bellow-
Writing is a means to unlocking the great mysteries of the
mind: thoughts, passions, innovations...-Michael Buckhoff-
The mere process of writing is one of the most powerful tools
we have for clarifying our own thinking. I am never as clear
about any matter as when I have just finished writing about it.
-James Van Allen-
Writing is a struggle against silence. -Carlos Fuentes-
Learning to write well takes time and much effort, but it can
be done. -Margaret Mead-
It has always been my feeling that writing must come out of
living, and the writer is no more than his personality endures
in the crucible of his times. -Margaret Walker-
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a
fire. -William
Butler
Yeats-
Read, read, read...Just like a carpenter who works as an
apprentice and studies the master. Read! -William Faulkner-
You are always going back and forth between the outline and
the writing, bringing them closer together, or just throwing out
the outline and making a new one. -Annie Dilliard-
How do I know what I think until I see what I say? -E. M.
Foster-