Writing Quote by Aurora Levins Morales

“How we document ourselves speaks volumes about our ability to know ourselves and write our own histories, and we need more opportunities to do…

— Nico Lang

“Every skillful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes our senses…

— Alain de Botton

“So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I…

— Joan Didion

“Sometimes I cannot tell who wrote what. That is upsetting. With some sections, I can remember the place and time I wrote them, but…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Prior knowledge is vital to comprehension because writers omit information.”

— Terry Marselle

“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’ ‘How did…

— Richard Dawkins

“if you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.”

— Giacomo Casanova

“Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.”

— Danielle S. Allen

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there…

— Daniel Kahneman

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

“...one of the main purposes of our assesment is to find evidence of the children using these ideas to make decisions about their writing…

— Katie Wood Ray