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

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Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process”, p.211, Oxford University Press

Peter Elbow

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Willing Quotes

“I think we should be clear: Companies will still need software that furthers their corporate goals and even gives them competitive advantage. That would be purchased and developed, if necessary, in house, or on a proprietary basis. But it needs to run on the company's computer system eventually, and its perfectly possible that system/network can be "rented out" from a utility.”
“I like to take on a different role every time or else I make myself bored.”
“Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.”
“If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes your feelings toward someone whose work has imprinted itself on your mind--if you see a photograph and say, 'Yes, this is the person,' with a little new insight--that is a beautiful experience.”
“Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.”
“You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.”
“The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.”
“Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.”

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