Writing With the Body

If I did not resist with my life, I should be unable to write...The Christian idea has got to be served; that the word is made Flesh. One must write with one's body. {Antoine de Saint-Exupery}

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was an acclaimed author (primarily for his children's book The Little Prince) and also an aviator who volunteered as a fighter pilot during the French Resistance in WWII. Older than most combat pilots, Saint-Exupery refused to surrender his commission. He believed that to write hone