~Words
of Wisdom for Writers Who Sometimes Waver~
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you."
~Maya Angelou~
"The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable."
~Susan Wittig Albert~
“One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other’s stories.”
~Rebecca Falls~
"Telling our story does not merely document who we are. It helps make us who we are."
~Rita Charon~
"Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change."
~Julia Cameron~
"Dancing, singing, storytelling, and silence are the four healing salves."
~Gabrielle Roth~
"The greatest story commandment is: make me care."
~Andrew Stanton~
"One day you will tell the story of how you overcame what you went through
and it will be someone else's survival guide."
~Brene Brown~
"The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know."
~Barbara Kingsolver~
"If we are artists...it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling to take whatever life has given us and make something new, something that wouldn't have existed if not for the fire, the genetic mutation, the sick baby, the accident."
~Dani Shapiro~"
There isn't a stronger connection between people than storytelling."
~Jimmy Neil Smith~
"Because right now there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words."
~Sean Thomas Dougherty~
"You'd be surprised what lengths people will go to not to face what's real and painful inside them."
~unknown~
“Good writing is not about good grammar. Good writing is about truth.”
~Nancy Slonim Aronie~
"Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write."
~Dani Shapiro~
"Write about what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."
~Natalie Goldberg~
“Stories are not material to be analyzed; they are relationships to be entered.”
~AW Frank~
“Can you tell me about a moment that was big for you…an instant when you saw things differently from then on? Not a sensational moment—you won ten-thousand dollars in the lottery, you were lost in the woods alone with no food—but a quiet moment when your whole awareness shifted?”
~Natalie Goldberg~
"Tell your story with your whole heart."
~Brene Brown~
"We read to learn about the world. We write to change the world."
~Lori Jamison Rog~
"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
~Ernest Hemingway~
"Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own."
~Demi Lovato~
"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any."
~Orson Scott Card~
"If a story is in you, it has got to come out."
~William Faulkner~
"The truth is, in order to heal we need to tell our stories and have them witnessed."
~Sue Monk Kidd~
“The degree to which you can tell your story is the degree to which you can heal.”
~Stasi Eldredge~
“Your body’s ability to heal is greater than anyone has permitted you to believe.”
~unknown~
“Instructions for a long life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Write about it.”
~Mary Oliver~
“People start to heal the moment they feel heard.”
~Cheryl Richardson~
“Tell your story, because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.”
~Iyanla Vanzant~
“We write out of revenge against reality.”
~Francine du Plessix Gray~
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
~Wendell Berry~
“At some point you are going to want to give up. Consider this a reminder:
don’t you dare.”
~Karen Salmansohn~
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I could go on...
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