Firsts Quote by Sandra Cisneros

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out…

— Sandra Cisneros

If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy…

— Kenyon Martin

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear…

— Richard Rhodes

When I finally addressed my stuttering - I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy for speech…

— Leana S. Wen

A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves…

— Dogen

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

— John Stossel

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

— Marilyn vos Savant

It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere.…

— Elaine Equi

“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think…

— Bob Newhart

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was…

— Lee Hazlewood