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The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process QUOTES

The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process QUOTES

1 " If we don’t write our stories, how will we truly know who we are? How will we define the world? How will we touch the mysteries of life? "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process

2 " I can arrange words on a page but I can't seem to organize books on a shelf. Over the years, My Secret has shelved thousands and thousands, held each one in his hands. He thinks they might have seeped into him, through his skin, as much as the books he's read. At night and on his days off we spend hours talking about writing. He reads three or four books at a time. When he's not working at the bookstore he goes to other bookstores around the city and browses until closing time. Holding more volumes in his hands, filling himself up with words. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process

3 " Writing was my religion, my foremost purpose in life, my consolation. But as the years passed and I didn’t have the successes that others deemed the qualifications of a “real” writer, I went into hiding. I wrote, but I lost the strength of my words. I wrote, but with a doubt that needled each sentence, a lack of self-confidence that clouded my imagination. My boldness evaporated. My verve started to become a distant memory. I lost my truth. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process

4 " When we don’t lay claim to our creative impulse to share what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us, an agony festers from self-diminishment, and another thorn is added to the daily existence that encircles us. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process