“But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.” WayStoriesSchoolFormJoyOrderMysteryStudentsBuildingMonstersEncountersTragicParadoxFacultyHeroicEntityMysticalCombiningCorridorsAlumni Author:Stephen L. Carter
“What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.” WantWritingProcessMysteryTeachingTalentStudentsDisciplineFindingsAdmireArtisticArtistic ProcessArtistic Talent Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.” WayShouldWritingChildrenReasonSpeakStudyMysteryStudentsTaughtPleaseExcitingSentencesMedicalDamnGrammarAnatomy Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.” MysteryStudentsGunDoctorsExpertsEtcFacultyConferencesPolicemenDetectivesForensics Author:Isabel Allende
“I report when science clashes with the Bible story and when it reinforces it. Then I let the readers chew on it. As followers of Jesus and students of the Bible, what we're looking for is the truth. We find it by grappling with the facts. And when the truth remains a mystery that our facts can't solve, we live with it. We hold loosely to our waffling knowledge and tightly to Jesus.” JesusMysteryStudentsClash Author:Stephen M. Miller
“Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.” WritingLongKidsSchoolRealizingAnswersMysteryMiddleStudentsTaughtLong TimeAdultsBack WhenMiddle School Author:Rick Riordan
“I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.” WritingCharacterStoriesSecretEconomyPiecesMysteryStudentsKeysSentencesLove StoryGood WritingSingle Sentence Author:Silas House