Circumstances Quote by Jessamyn West

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,…

— Jessamyn West

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track,…

— Jessamyn West

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

— 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,…

— Jessamyn West

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have…

— Jessamyn West

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

— Jessamyn West

People who keep journals have life twice

— Jessamyn West

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

— Jessamyn West

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

— Jessamyn West

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state…

— Jessamyn West

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after…

— Jessamyn West

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a…

— Jessamyn West