Why Write?: You don’t have to take my word for it
A serial memoirist’s quote roundup for your Sunday
“We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.”
Anne Lamott“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes
“Most of all, you owe all the truth you can wheedle out of yourself… While it is a shaped experience, the best (memoirs) come from the soul of a human unit oddly compelled to root out the past truth for its own deeply felt reasons. In fact, every memoirist I know seems doomed to explore the past in an often agonized death march down the pages.”
Mary Karr“Most of us are dragged toward wholeness.”
Marion Woodman“A curious mind probing for truth may well set your scribbling ass free. A fierce urge to try re-experiencing your own mind and body and throbbing heart alive inside the most vivid stories from your past is step one. No doubt, if you weren’t haunted by those stories, you wouldn’t waste your time trying to write them.”
Mary Karr
There is still space available in my creative writing and therapeutic storytelling workshop happening this Friday.
I’d love for you to spend the weekend with me writing stories and swapping battle scars. You won’t be sorry.