Write for Your Life

Writing is undoubtedly interaction with another human being, even if that human being is only yourself.

everyone has a voice.

Where are the letters those of us going through a crisis today will write that our own children will find in a cedar chest? Is the computer the cedar chest of the future, and how precisely will our descendants be able to pore over the contents?

If, in good times and bad times and ordinary times, people who may not think of themselves as writers begin to set their stories down, in their own voices, in whichever way they choose, it will make history, make it truer, fairer, richer. We need to hear from everyone,

written down, it lives. It’s there, it’s real. That’s the important thing. That’s why we write things down, to give them life.

Writing can allow you to write a different ending to your life.”

for a fiction writer the question of where things come from is, in my experience, a bit mysterious.

In the twenty-first century I do not send a letter because I want to tell you something. I do it because I want to give you something, something personal and long-lasting. There’s a reason why we always envision a cache of letters tied up with a ribbon. It’s because they are a gift.

when you’ve written something by hand, the only person who could have done it is you.

She was finding solace in writing her life, her thoughts and feelings, day after day. Words to live by.