To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
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Terry Tempest Williams
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can...
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David Morrell
...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...
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John Geddes
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
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Laurie Halse Anderson
All I have is a voice.
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W.h. Auden
More Quotes By Terry Tempest Williams
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look,...
Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.
There is no one true church, no one chosen people.
How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.
