"We write to taste life twice." --Anais Nin

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."--William Strunk, Jr.

"There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well." --Pliny the Younger

"Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you." --RealLivePreacher.com

"A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it." --Ernest Hemingway

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

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." --Samuel Johnson

"The great art in writing is to know when to stop." --Josh Billings

Publications

Here is a listshort stories written by students at Sunshine Academy and published by Anthology of Short Stories by Young Americans.

Here is a picture of some of the published writers at the 2008 award ceremony.