Peter Elbow Quotes
- It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.
- It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago…
- Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs…
- Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most…
- Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but…
- Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
- Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.