Carolina QuotesIt may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.
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Chapter 3, It's Not The Thought That Counts, p. 26
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- How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)
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- 2011
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