Peter Elbow Quotes

#1. 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 people when they are enjoying a conversation ... Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand
the words go deep.

Peter Elbow

#2. The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?

Peter Elbow

#3. Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.

Peter Elbow

#4. 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 clear.

Peter Elbow

#5. I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

Geronimo

#6. Hurt me back when I hurt you and I would always love you for it.

Nitin Kumar

#7. Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

Peter Elbow

#8. Any learned man is worth hearing, and who needs enemies?

Julie Berry

#9. For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"

Robert Graves

#10. I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

LeRoy Neiman

#11. I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Ed Begley Jr.

#12. The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students.

Peter Elbow

#13. But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what?

Peter S. Beagle

#14. I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.

Bobby Orr

#15. People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

J.G. Ballard

#16. It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

Peter Elbow

#17. Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Seth Godin

#18. 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 the practice itself is rare.

Peter Elbow

#19. 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 there was none.

Peter Elbow

#20. I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

Ken Burns