“I have to remember that God made me a communicator. No one ever had to teach me how to make myself clear, nor tell me that good communication is half rational analysis and half pictorial and dramatic imagination, as in Isaiah and Ecclesiastes and Jesus and Paul and Luther and C.S. Lewis.”
“What I find that I know about writing boils down to this: There are four rules. First, have something clear to say. Second, keep it simple. Third, make it flow. Fourth, be willing to redraft as often as is necessary to meet these requirements.”
“Writing is both an art and a craft, and you learn it by doing it. To see things you want to say, and to have ideas about how to say them, is how it starts: then you have to find the sound of your own voice talking on paper, and you can only do that by reading your initial drafts and making improvements. It is as simple–and as difficult–as that. ‘The Teacher searched to find just the right words,’ says Ecclesiastes (12:10 [NIV84]), and in this he was the model for all writers anywhere in any age.”
J.I. Packer, “An Accidental Author” in Pointing to the Pasturelands, 22-23.