Don Murray Quotes

• Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

  Don Murray

  Pigs, Sausage, Process

  Don Murray (1982). “Learning by Teaching: Selected Articles on Writing and Teaching”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

  Don Murray

  Writing, Ignorance, Essentials

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• I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

  Don Murray

  Writing, Two, Twenties

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• The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

  Don Murray

  Writing, Knowing, Challenges

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• People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

  Don Murray

  Sports, Kids, Rocks

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