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Quote by Stanley Fish

“It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.”

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Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish is an American scholar renowned for his contributions to the fields of law, literature, and critical theory. Born on April 19, 1938, he has been a professor at Yale University and the University of Chicago, as well as an accomplished writer and critic. more

“Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.”

Knows Writing Done Practice Know How Forever Mere Sentences Lists Grades Items Explaining Discrete

Author:Stanley Fish

“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.”

People Writing Has Beens Order Speak Effects Produce Degrees Sentences

Author:Stanley Fish

“Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.”

Sentences

Author:Stanley Fish

“What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.”

Knows World Writing Looks Sentences Dimensions Assessment

Author:Stanley Fish