In replying to a young student’s request for advice on writing, C.S. Lewis began his multi-point list with this: Turn off the Radio.

The advice extends to us, too.

But what is our writing? And what is our radio?

Whatever the answer, the work calls for its own sense of quiet. And yet we live in a world filled with noise.

So turning off the radio is no small task. But we must. We must for the sake of the work that seeks to come through us.