Susan Reynolds

“Embrace Cursive Schools are downplaying—and even eliminating—the need to learn to write cursive, despite its necessity to engage highly complex cognitive processes and achieve mastery of a precise motor coordination. (It takes children years to master handwriting and some stroke victims relearn language by tracing letters with their fingers.) Writing in cursive also increases a sense of harmony and balance, and writing on paper provides creative options: to manipulate the medium in multidimensional, innovative, or expressive ways (such as cutting, folding, pasting, ripping, or coloring the paper). Also, when you write in longhand on paper and then edit, there’ll be a visual and tactile record of your creative process for you and others to study. Learning to write (and writing) in cursive, on paper, fosters creativity and should not be surrendered.”
― Susan Reynolds, Fire Up Your Writing Brain: How to Use Proven Neuroscience to Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Writer

“Berlin says hedgehogs adhere to one unshakeable conceptual and stylistic unity, clinging to a single, universal, organizing principle that he or she fervently believes; whereas foxes adapt his or her strategy to the circumstances, seizing the essence of a vast variety of experiences and objects, seeking to fit them into—or exclude them from—an unchanging, sometimes fanatical unitary inner vision.”
― Susan Reynolds, Fire Up Your Writing Brain: How to Use Proven Neuroscience to Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Writer