Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by LouAnne Johnson

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.

When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.