Jessamyn West
Jessamyn West
Mary Jessamyn Westwas an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion. A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1902
CityVernon, IN
CountryUnited States of America
courage writing helpful
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
teenage tragedy needs
At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.
justice terrible necessary-things
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
motivational people journal-writing
People who keep journals have life twice
hate creating mind
I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.
hate writing evil
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.
two sick different
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
success men soul
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
sleep insomnia desert
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
rogues saint honest
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
water people wells
Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.
paradise fool chance
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.