“Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.” — Jessamyn West People Copy Share Image
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. — Jessamyn West Guts Copy Share Image
“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.” — Jessamyn West Guts Copy Share Image
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. — Jessamyn West Future Copy Share Image
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. — Jessamyn West Animal Copy Share Image
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a… — Jessamyn West Grinder Copy Share Image
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the… — Jessamyn West Change Copy Share Image
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. — Jessamyn West Awakening Copy Share Image
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words… — Jessamyn West Communication Copy Share Image
“Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly… — Jessamyn West Community Copy Share Image
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words… — Jessamyn West Adults Copy Share Image
I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as… — Jessamyn West Crafts Copy Share Image
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the… — Jessamyn West Blind Copy Share Image
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. — Jessamyn West Animals Copy Share Image
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? — Jessamyn West Honest Copy Share Image
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy. — Jessamyn West Adolescence Copy Share Image
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
