Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#on-fiction #reality #truth #truth

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#writing #inspirational

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

— Jessamyn West

#east #forgive #grit #having #mistakes

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. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#death #faithfulness #free #ground #kind

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#falseness #harm #honesty #hurt #i

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#nothing #rattlesnake #teaches #you

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#awakening #does #him #love #religious

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#guts #helpful #necessary #talent #writing

Groan and forget it. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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

— Jessamyn West

#broken #fester #forever #heal #opens