Patricia T. O'Conner Quotes

• A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Sweat, Good Writers

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• In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Reading, Land, Way

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• Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Writing, Thinking, Suspects

  Patricia T. O'Conner (2000). “Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Reading, Civilization, Reader

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