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.
Jessamyn WestPeople who keep journals have life twice.
Jessamyn WestKnowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.
Jessamyn WestTags: self-knowledge
Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.
Jessamyn WestWriting is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
Jessamyn WestI am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.
Jessamyn WestTags: indecision
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