"When I read students’ attempts at creative writing……" — Julius Lester
"When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect."
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Julius Lester
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23 Quotes by Julius Lester
Julius Lester has 23 quotes on this site.
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Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.
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I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps…
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Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings
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The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone…
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Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life…
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Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound…
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A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also…
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To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death…
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Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
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Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and…
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It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.
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Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or…
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