The following is from New York State Writers Institute Associate Director Donald Faulkner's speech at the Oct. 25 Authors and Editors Celebration. I am very proud to be among so many individual talents. That means we work here. To brazenly paraphrase the apostle Paul in one of his epistles, there are teaching or educating, administering, and writing, and the greatest of these is writing. I hasten to add editing as a form of writing.
Writing is great, because without it the other efforts make little sense.
I, like many of you, consider myself a writer who teaches, and as a teacher who writes. As some of you know I have come to Albany recently from Yale University, a somewhat esteemed institution. But however grand that place is, they've never organized an event such as this. Though collegiality could be found, it was a concept that frequently gathered dust, and publication was something expected, of course, but never heralded. I told some of my former colleagues of the event held here this afternoon.