When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to…

- Lucy Calkins

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

- 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: …

- 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 wa…

- Lucy Calkins

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

- 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

Teach the writer, not the writing.

- Lucy Calkins