What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on digital writing in the writing workshop that much more compelling?

Death is contagious

Our best thoughts come from others.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.

Without game, men prey on each other.

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.