Writer Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

— Terry Tempest Williams

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

— Terry Tempest Williams

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It…

— Terry Tempest Williams

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“It is winter. Ravens are standing on a pile of bones -- black typeface on white paper picking an idea clean. It’s…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes…

— Terry Tempest Williams