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

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Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.5, Oxford University Press

Peter Elbow

#Thinking Quotes #Worry Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.”
“Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.”
“All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.”
“Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.”
“Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.”
“It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.”
“There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”

Source : "Hollow City". Book by Ransom Riggs, January 14, 2014.
“Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.”

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