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 Copy Share Image
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… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You need to understand something, boy. The world you see outside of you is a reflection of what you have inside of you. If… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
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… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them. — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
