The Need to Write
With the exception of speaking, writing is the most popular and prevalent method of creating connections among people. As a means of building links between individuals and within communities, writing serves as the flexible foundation for almost every type of communications media. Print, video, audio, speech and interactive web media all begin with writing.
Writing connects people across time, space and culture. Because of the influence of writing, individuals can learn from yesterday, gain knowledge about today and design for tomorrow.
Writing—being inanimate, amoral and disinterested—can transmit good or evil. It can destroy or create, cover up or reveal. Writing can prevaricate or be straightforward. It can build up or tear down, poison or heal. Writing can cause conflict or encourage peace.
Because writing in itself is neutral and indifferent, its purposes and results depend totally on the intentions and hearts of writers and their audiences.