Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. -Jessamyn West Nature
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 Forgiveness
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 Alone
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 Change
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 Society
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 Family
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. -Jessamyn West Death
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 Humor
