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

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

- Peter Elbow

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

- Peter Elbow

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

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

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

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…

- Peter Elbow

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