Alive Quote by Richard Wright

I was definitely seriously affected [with wifw and daughter deaths], no question, but I learnt to devote myself to the things that we'd been…

— Edmund Hillary

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there…

— Tanith Lee

Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was…

— Porochista Khakpour

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex…

— Hattie Morahan

“The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping…

— Nicole Krauss

Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I…

— Tracy Thompson

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised…

— Dorothy Allison

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the…

— Judy Blume

“The value of experience, real or imagined, is that is shows us how to - or how NOT to - live. In reading about…

— Nina Sankovitch

I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter…

— Marjorie Pizer

I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my…

— Kate Forsyth

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came…

— Coretta Scott King