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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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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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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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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There's fighters that sit down and wait two years, waiting for the call. I can't do that. Time's ticking.
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He wanted to be angry, his mission was was to be angry, and he had nothing to be angry about; the world would not let him rave, this was the great injustice he suffered from.
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People talk of peace, "We should have peace" - how can you have peace? It's not possible, is an impossible situation. You see we think by thinking, by organizing, by manipulating, we'll have peace. You cannot. You cannot have peace that way. How will you have peace? When the peace is established on your attention. When your attention is peaceful, when we are absolutely without any thoughts, then the peace resides.
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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.
