Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Sorcery, Stories, Literature

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.55, Vintage

• I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the delicacy of our relations. It is this tenderness born out of a connection to place that fuels my writing. Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Moving, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.55, Vintage

• I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Writing, Sorcery

  Source: therumpus.net

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