Source: War All the Time
Source: Soul Curry for You and Me: An Empowering Philosophy that Can Enrich Your Life, P. 25.
“Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”
A statement of 1968, as quoted in "How And Why I Write: An Interview with Elie Wiesel" by Heidi Anne Walker, in Journal of Education, Vol. 162 (1980), p. 57
Variants:
Some words are deeds.
Souls on Fire : Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (1982)
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
As quoted in "Nobelists, Auschwitz, and Survival" by Robert McAfee Brown, in Christianity and Crisis, Vol. 48 (7 March 1988), p. 58
“I like to write about modern instincts that are in some way good. And also in some way dangerous.”
On being drawn to the small domestic truths of life in “Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/jia-tolentino-i-like-to-write-about-instincts-that-are-in-some-way-good-and-in-some-way-dangerous- in The Guardian (2019 Aug 11)
“All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 17
