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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/write-about-just-one-thing-i-have-said-and-there-is-wisdom-in-this/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

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## More by Lucy Calkins

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/write-about-just-one-thing-i-have-said-and-there-is-wisdom-in-this/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

> [Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/our-job-is-to-ask-questions-of-children-so-that-children-internalize/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

> [Teach the writer, not the writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/teach-the-writer-not-the-writing/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

> [“You need to understand something, boy. The world you see outside of you is a reflection of what you have inside of you. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/you-need-to-understand-something-boy-the-world-you-see-outside-of-you/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/when-a-young-writer-deliberately-tries-to-create-an-effect-the-result/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/similarly-although-we-use-prepositional-phrases-when-we-write-we/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

> [Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/meanings-come-not-from-events-themselves-but-from-what-we-bring-to/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-calkins/writing-well-has-everything-to-do-with-being-able-to-read-one-s-own/)

[Lucy Calkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-calkins/)

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