10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know Quotes

“Sentences live—they reach out, they move and breathe.”
― 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

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

“Metaphors Be With You”
― 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

“Name names and your writing will stick with readers.”
― 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

“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

“As the writer, I know, but does my reader?”
― 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

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

“writing is performance.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

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

“Texts are teachers.”
― 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

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

“Let others do your work for you. Use quotes, anecdotes, information from other authorities; let them carry your message across. —Vladimir Nabokov”
― 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

“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

“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

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

“Writing is writing,”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“You are learning what you aren’t writing, and this is helping you find out what you are writing. —Anne Lamott”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know

“Relationships between seemingly separate ideas can start to make their own whole when we stand at a distance, searching for patterns.”
― 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

“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

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

“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. —Mason Cooley”
― 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

“Not everything we write will be great. That’s natural.”
― Jeff Anderson, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know