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“One thinks about modern academics, especially philosophers and sociologists. Their language is often voiceless and without power because it is so utterly cut off from experience and things. There is no sense of words carrying experiences, only of reflecting relationships between other words or between "concepts." There is no sense of an actual self seeing a thing or having an experience... Sociology—by its very nature?—seems to be an enterprise whose practitioners cut themselves off from experience and things and deal entirely with categories about categories. As a result sociologists, more even than writers in other disciplines, often write language which has utterly died”
― Peter Elbow, Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

“writing stories, scenes, and portraits is a very inductive process and will lead you to new insights and new points of view you couldn’t reach by reasoning alone.”
― Peter Elbow, Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

“The real problem is writersâ€� refusal to take full and open responsibility for what they are saying. If a writer is willing to say, in effect, “I’m me, I’m saying this, and I’m saying it to you,â€� his words will not just have more life in them, they will also be clearer and more coherent. The”
― Peter Elbow, Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

“Most people start shaping and revising what they have written once they get one pretty good idea. "Yes that's it, now I've figured out what I want to say." That's terrible. You shouldn't start revising till you have more good stuff than you can use. (And it won't take long to get it if you make your early writing into a free brainstorming session.) That way you'll have to be critical and throw away genuinely good stuff just to trim your piece down to the right length.”
― Peter Elbow, Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

“If you separate the writing process into two stages, you can exploit these opposing muscles one at a
time: first be loose and accepting as you do fast early writing; then be critically toughminded as you revise what you have produced. What you'll discover is that these two skills used alternately don't
undermine each other at all, they enhance each other.”
― Peter Elbow, Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

“If you are trying to be inventive and come up with lots of interesting new ideas, it's usually the worst thing in the world if someone comes along and starts being critical. Thus, the power of brainstorming: no one is allowed to criticize any idea or suggestion that is offered—no matter how stupid, impractical, or useless it seems. You can't get the good ones and the fruitful interaction among the odd ones unless you welcome the terrible ones.”
― Peter Elbow, Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

“Certainly for many people the most intense music is the music of the spheres—the perception of built-in coherence in nature—and that is the music of pure ideas. We”
― Peter Elbow, Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process