20 Quotes & Sayings By Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West is a bestselling author of more than 100 books, including the novels No Is a Four-Letter Word and The Good Karma Hospital, which was adapted into a Hallmark Channel television movie. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Jessamyn West
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Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive. Jessamyn West
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Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary. Jessamyn West
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Groan and forget it. Jessamyn West
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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
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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
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If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one. Jessamyn West
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Teaching is the royal road to learning. Jessamyn West
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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
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Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish. Jessamyn West
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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
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. Jessamyn West
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Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. Jessamyn West
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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
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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
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West
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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
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. Jessamyn West
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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