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…

— Lucy Calkins

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own…

— Lucy Calkins

Teach the writer, not the writing.

— Lucy Calkins

“You need to understand something, boy. The world you see outside of you is a reflection of what you have inside of…

— 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…

— 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…

— Lucy Calkins

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

— 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…

— Lucy Calkins