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.

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

Teach the writer, not the writing.

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

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.

I live wherever you are cos honestly there's no better place to call home.

Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.

You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.