I would stand and
look out over
the roofs of Paris
and think, “Do not worry.
You have always written
before and
you will write now.
All you have to do is write
one true sentence.
Write the truest sentence
that you know.”

—Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast

The shortest distance
between two people
is a story.

― Patti Digh

Exaggeration is
a violence of language,
which, in politics,
is full of the threat
of violence of other kinds.
Exaggeration—
extremities of generalization,
language overpowering
knowledge—
prepared us for
the Civil War.

—Wendell Berry,
The Need to Be Whole

The big kahuna in content marketing is the book.

—Michael Bungay Stanier,
“Exactly how I self-published my book, sold 180,000 copies, and nearly doubled my revenue”

To hell with last words.
Let’s try to make
one sentence
that’s rightly positioned
within a manageable context
so that we can utter it
to somebody else
and they’ll understand it.

—Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry discusses life