Quotes by Jessamyn West

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

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

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

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

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

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they dont it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”