Animals Quote by Yvonne Blackwood

“the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By telling stories,…

— Tim O'Brien

“It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it exists only…

— Natasha Solomons

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully…

— Lisa Scottoline

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Past experiences are effluvial. Burn them. The now is important.”

— Sandra Harner

“The vastness, the immensity, the awfulness of what I saw as I kept moving along with the front line engagements was utterly beyond my…

— Cari Beauchamp

“events in our lives are reactions to past actions.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”

— Will Blythe

“It didn't matter to her whether she'd written anything brilliant. It just felt good to be able to write again.”

— Alexandra Monir

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces…

— Nathan Filer

“In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.”

— Jane Austen