Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. - Jessamyn West
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
- Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. - Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should sur… - Jessamyn West
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should sur…
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not hal… - Jessamyn West
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not hal…
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that t… - Jessamyn West
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that t…
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. - Jessamyn West
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life. - Jessamyn West
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. - Jessamyn West
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
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