Peter Elbow
Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.Collection: Clarity
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.Collection: Running
It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Real
The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Shapes
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.Collection: Views
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.Collection: Hunger