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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | ||
|62 = '''The exact measure of one’s understanding of anything is rather the extent to which one can couch one’s understanding of it in words; and the measure of one’s understanding of someone else’s explanation is one’s ability to explain his explanation in one’s own terms. Accordingly, one of the most efficacious ways to develop one’s understanding of anything is to try to explain it to someone else; teaching does return a reward. For explaining one’s experience forces one to give narrative form to it; and as the words come and the sentences flow, the information is organized and systematized: the facts “fall into place.”'''<br /> | |62 = '''The exact measure of one’s understanding of anything is rather the extent to which one can couch one’s understanding of it in words; and the measure of one’s understanding of someone else’s explanation is one’s ability to explain his explanation in one’s own terms. Accordingly, one of the most efficacious ways to develop one’s understanding of anything is to try to explain it to someone else; teaching does return a reward. For explaining one’s experience forces one to give narrative form to it; and as the words come and the sentences flow, the information is organized and systematized: the facts “fall into place.”'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Leslie Dewart<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Leslie Dewart<br /> | ||
|63 = '''Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite> | |||
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Revision as of 23:17, 3 June 2013
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). Source.
—add a quote about knowledge or writing