Jeff Anderson > Quotes

“..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.”
― Jeff Anderson, Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop

“Sentences live—they reach out, they move and breathe.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Singing a worship song is not necessarily worship, and neither is writing a check. But when the heart engages in a meaningful way through a praise song or a hymn, it becomes more than just singing. And when the heart engages through a gift that matters, it becomes more than just writing a check.”
― Jeff Anderson, Plastic Donuts: Giving That Delights the Heart of the Father

“Knowing basic information about genre, form, and mode gives students options to shape and organize their ideas.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“selecting and collecting the right texts is just as important for writing instruction.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Science starts with a question.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“As the writer, I know, but does my reader?”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Our best writers read the most.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13),”
― Jeff Anderson, Power Read the Bible: A Companion Guide for Your 60-Day Journey

“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. —Mason Cooley”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write. —Stephen King”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“The way to reach [struggling learners] is to encourage them to notice data available to their senses. The process of reflective awareness helps students develop their cognitive structures to process information and create meaning. —Betty Garner”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Writing should be a joyous act, not drudgery, and frankly so should the teaching of it.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“We must have the courage to write those first words, stringing them together and perhaps stumbling, but staying in motion.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Metaphors Be With You”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“The true self is always in motion—like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes—in writing or life—and do not dwell on them but move on and write more. —Brenda Ueland”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“What we have to learn, we learn by doing. —Aristotle”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson I”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Main idea and controlling idea are synonymous with focus.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“It’s about identifying the patterns and the attributes that construct them. It’s about making form work for your writing task”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“In writing, authors use modes to make meaning and clarity.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“You can’t tell the reader what it means at the end. The reader has to know what it means, and feel what it means. The reader has to be there experiencing the text. —Don Murray”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“The right words communicate; the wrong words obfuscate.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Whatever you do … avoid piles. —T. S. Eliot”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“students suffer from page fright.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Texts are teachers.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Conclusions that echo an image or idea from the lead are powerful.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Writing is not about impressing; it is about expressing.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know