Jessamyn West
Jessamyn West
Mary Jessamyn Westwas an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion. A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1902
CityVernon, IN
CountryUnited States of America
writing past kind
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.
motivational people journal-writing
People who keep journals have life twice
hate writing evil
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.
writing punishment earth
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
writing garden self
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.
courage writing helpful
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
change easier fit
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
country
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
jobs simple men
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
real study enough
Knowledge 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.
paradise fool chance
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
leadership distance numbers
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.
joy sorrow source
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
solitude easy born
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.