Jessamyn West Quotes

"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 West in Writing quotes.

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
-Jessamyn West in Facts quotes.

"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."
-Jessamyn West

"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."
-Jessamyn West in Communication quotes.

"A big iron needle stitching the country together."
-Jessamyn West

"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."
-Jessamyn West in Colors quotes.

"It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable."
-Jessamyn West

"People who keep journals have life twice."
-Jessamyn West

"To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other."
-Jessamyn West

"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
-Jessamyn West