Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Quotes to Explore
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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You write about what you know.
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Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
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This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in their relationships. Sometimes our love becomes distorted by our feelings of insecurity and our fear of abandonment. This is the often the case with those who become overly controlling and overly smothering of their partner. Others become emotionally abusive because of their fear of intimacy.
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He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.
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If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.
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I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
