Education Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image “You learn a lot, writing fiction.” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Fiction Writing Writing fiction
If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
