Lauren Groff Quotes

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

I'm a guy that, I like to learn by seeing things.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

I've always been a very observant person, a visual person. That's my way of learning. Things on paper, notes and things like that, don't help me the same way as watching things live.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

People are visual and hands on learners.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.

There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting down one day and writing one. You have to learn how to captivate a reader. Right? And I don't mean you have to go to school for it. But if you're - if you pay attention, you can learn it by reading books. And so I feel like I learned a lot by reading books.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work.