--- title: Whittaker Chambers on Writing and Inertia tags: [Quote, Writing] summary: By simply picking up a pen, things can be done, if we have the will to overcome inertia. sharing: twitter: "By simply picking up a pen, things can be done, if we have the will to overcome inertia." facebook: "By simply picking up a pen, things can be done, if we have the will to overcome inertia." --- > By simply picking up a pen, things can be done, if we have the > will to overcome inertia. From a letter by Whittaker Chambers to Henry Regnery regarding Russell Kirk's *Conservative Mind*.