Peter Elbow quotes
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“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.”
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“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 ElbowSource : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.52, Oxford University Press
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“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 ElbowSource : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.5, Oxford University Press
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“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 ElbowSource : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.57, Oxford University Press
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“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.”
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“Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.”
-- Peter ElbowSource : Peter Elbow (1986). “Embracing contraries: explorations in learning and teaching”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.”
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“The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?”
-- Peter ElbowSource : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process”, p.211, Oxford University Press
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“I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.”
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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“I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.”
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