“Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.” – Sharif Khan

“Writing does what physicists cannot: it freezes time; captures the essence of the moment, even as it passes away. Writing says, we were here; that we breathed and felt and saw and made mistakes and learned from them.” – Lisa E. Henderson

“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.” – Paul Muldoon

“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling