American writer Quote by Diane Ackerman Download Open image “American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.” — Diane Ackerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American writer Brain Children playing Kids playing Play Way Writing
“Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to writing, and how (and whether) we impart it… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“My parents placed a high value on reading, starting with the King James Bible, and one whole wall of our living room was filled, floor to ceiling, with books. But I was an outside kid and didn’t have the patience to be a reader. That changed, briefly, when I discovered Tom Sawyer in the fourth grade. That was the one… — John R. Erickson Copy Share
“Americans need to develop a “habit of mind” that includes reading books.” — David Souter Copy Share Image
“The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the very prevalent impression, indeed we might say the practically universal persuasion, that there was nothing worth while talking about in any department… — James Joseph Walsh Copy Share Image
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can’t go back to how it was, we’re designing a good… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The etymology of the Hebrew word for prophet, navi, combines three processes: navach (to cry out), nava (to gush or flow), and navuv (to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot. — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain. Once you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
![“Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/707/diane-ackerman-1035_cities_symbolic-of-life-hair-bolts-from-our-hea_194991.jpg)
