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Posted on August 11, 2012

Baluchistan, Pakistan

Writing  is one of the grand, free human activities.
-  Thomas E. Cronin


Yemen

Writing is both mask and unveiling.
- E.B. White


Mali

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
- William Wordsworth


Kegalla, Sri Lanka

Burma 

 Writing is thinking on paper.

- William Zinsser


 Kabul, Afghanistan

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite…
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Honduras

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
- Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895


India

Like most—maybe all— writers, I learned to write by writing and,
by example, by
reading books.
- Francine Prose


Bruce Duffy, writer and author, working on an article for Life Magazine, Afghanistan

The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Dith Pran, survivor of Cambodia’s killing fields, photojournalist, and author of Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors

Paul Theroux, writer and novelist, Costa Rica

Words so innocent and powerless as they are,
as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil
they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne


Paraguay

Creative writing begins with creative thinking
- K. Earle


Colombia

Afghanistan

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.
- Vita Sackville-West


Thailand

Writing left by visitors to a pilgrimage site in Burma

Peru

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought,
this in turn makes
us think more deeply about life … 
- Norbet Platt


Young Sikh boys in classroom, Afghanistan

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the
difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain