Talkers say things and hope everyone remembers
Writers crystalize things and hopefully make it easy for people to find those crystalized things
Talkers are performers, often without follow-through
Writers are creating the paper trail by which they can and must hold themselves accountable and ideally be held accountable by others
Talkers do not create court-admissible evidence (hearsay)
Writers shall inherit the earth
Writers are time travelers
They're communing with the past and the future
Talkers are a blip, they are like dust in the wind
words written thousands of years ago are still read to this very day