Quotes by : Jessamyn West

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate....

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for....

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the....

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you....

Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

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

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Groan and forget it.