Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

writing is the most personal form of prayer.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

We write to make sense of it all.

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I used to love writing in my journal.