Lucy Calkins famous quotes

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.
-- Lucy Calkins

#Education #Writing #Labels

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.
-- Lucy Calkins

#Jobs #Children #Emerging

Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice...And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.
-- Lucy Calkins

#Writing #Advice #Together

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.
-- Lucy Calkins

#Writing #Eye #Able

Teach the writer, not the writing.
-- Lucy Calkins

#Writing #Teach

Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.
-- Lucy Calkins

#Events

When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?
-- Lucy Calkins

#Self #Trying #Littles

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way. ---Yasu

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.