Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

Teach the writer, not the writing.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Don’t just be able

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

I've always been old at heart.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

My life really began when I married my husband.

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.