Ralph Fletcher Quotes

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G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.

Ralph Fletcher

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

Ralph Fletcher

When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

Ralph Fletcher

When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.

Ralph Fletcher

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

Ralph Fletcher

Ralph Fletcher

Ralph Fletcher

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Born: March 17, 1953 (age 73)

Bio: Ralph Fletcher is an American writer of children's picture books, young adult fiction and poetry. He is also an educational consultant, and author of books for both children and professional educators on the craft of writing.

Known for:

Flying Solo (1998)
Fig Pudding (1995)
Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide (2001)
What a writer needs (1993)
Twilight Comes Twice (1997)

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