A big iron needle stitching the country together.
Jessamyn West
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
Jessamyn West
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
Groan and forget it.
Jessamyn West
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Jessamyn West
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
Jessamyn West
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Jessamyn West
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Jessamyn West
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Jessamyn West
The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Jessamyn West
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Jessamyn West
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Jessamyn West
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Type:
Author
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1984
Nationality:
American |
