Breathe Quote by Ralph Fletcher

“It’s almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.”

— Marilyn Johnson

“...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as…

— Andrea A. Lunsford

“writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the actual act…

— Anne Lamott

“Writing is like cooking. You toss in a bunch of ingredients and hope the combination of flavors will appeal to someone's taste.”

— Dee Leone

“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.”

— Alane Adams

“Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't.”

— Adam Santo

“Perhaps, writing is like the taste of honey sucked from flowers in a garden, each tasting differently.”

— Anu Lal

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

“One of the hardest concepts for students to grasp or accept about writing is the time that it takes to make something good.”

— Cynthia D. Urbanski

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein