Quotations

"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do, and I understand"  

-Confucius

“If students are to make knowledge their own, they must struggle with the details, wrestle with the facts, and rework raw information and dimly understood concepts into language they can communicate to someone else. In short, if students are to learn, they must write.” 

-National Commission on Writing (2003)

"I'm bored by writers who can only write when it's raining" 

-Noel Coward

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy' profession to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters." 

- John le Carré

"Good English, well spoken and well written, will open more doors than a college degree. Bad English will slam doors you didn't even know existed"