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I Could Tell You Stories

You are unique. You are gifted. Your quietness is your strength. Your depth is your advantage. If you are born with a temperament that craves to be alone, delights in meaningful connections, thinks before speaking and observes before approachin

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“One who writes memoir wishes to step into that light, not to see one's own face—that is not possible—but to feel the length of shadow cast by the night.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“If 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.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: human, Being human, Human Connection, Pain, Carrying Our Pain

“We wish to talk to each other about life and death, about love, despair, loss, and innocence. We sense that in order to live together we must learn to speak of peace, of history, of meaning and values. The big words.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: human, Being human, Human Connection, Human Desires, Opening Up

“For meaning is not "attached" to the detail by the memoirist; meaning is revealed.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“Seeking the congruence between stored image and hidden emotion—that's the real job of memoir.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“My narrative self (the culprit who invented) wishes to be discovered by my reflective self, the self who wants to understand and make sense of half-remembered moment.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“Memory seeks a permanent home for feeling and image, a habitation where they can live together.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“Intimacy with a piece of writing, as with a person, comes from paying attention to the revelations it is capable of giving, not by imposing my own notions and agenda, no matter how well intentioned they might be.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“I don't write about what I know, but in order to find out what I know.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir

“The experience was simply there, like a book that has always been on the shelf, whether I ever read it or not, the binding and the title showing as I skim across the contents of my life.”

— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir