Lucy Calkins Quotes

#1. Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

Pope Pius X

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such as Problem Child, the Outsider and Cherry Red.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#5. It's hard to say 'No' and develop your moral fiber. That's why your school is so important.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

#6. When I was drawing this, I thought I'd put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I'm going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here's the six.

Naoko Takeuchi

#7. 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

#8. Time is denial's mortal enemy and is always victorious against it.

Chris Dietzel

#9. When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

St. Lucia

#10. People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Henning Mankell

#11. It was necessary that spirituality sink to its lowest ebb that it should rise to the highest pinnacle in another direction.

Anonymous

#12. Teach the writer, not the writing.

Lucy Calkins

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.

Aristotle.

#16. Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

Lucy Calkins

#17. When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

Donald Wills Douglas

#18. But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#19. I am in love with stories. How they shape our lives. How they mark people who don't even know us. How they can impact us even when an event didn't exactly occur in our own lives

Katy Evans

#20. I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

Tony Benn

#21. Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

Byron Katie