It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.

What is remembered is what becomes reality.

In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?

It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.

Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies heavily on memory and on the ability to retrieve and organize images and events from the personal pastIf we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory.