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Don Murray Quotes

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

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

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

Don Murray
Writing, Ignorance, Essentials

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

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

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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