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.

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.

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

Change is not change without changing Your Self first by changing the external factors of yourself, for darkness cannot glow in the light

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

People comment, and that's where we are now. It's the way the world is.

I have the mouth of a sailor.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.