Quotes & Sayings About Writing Lucy Calkins

Teach the writer, not the writing. — Lucy Calkins

Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice ... And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together. — Lucy Calkins

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. — Lucy Calkins

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. — Lucy Calkins