Jessamyn West

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

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

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”

“Praise is a powerful tonic.”

“Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes a difference what direction you are looking in.”

“A man's life is his work; his work is his life.”

“Big words are shallow, real feelings are deep.”

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

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”

“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”

“I am a book-oriented person. I don't know how to do anything else but read.”