Jessamyn West Quotes

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them fo...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them fo...

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for...

Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If yo...

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The firs...

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection ...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Groan and forget it.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than t...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to ap...

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer...