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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.
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I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.
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Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.
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What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
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I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.
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I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that is what other people call you. But I consider myself a member of a community in Salt Lake City, in Utah, in the American West, in this country. And writing is what I do. That is the tool out of which I can express my love.
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Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.
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I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.
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A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.
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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
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The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
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We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.
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Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.
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Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.
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Storytelling is the oldest form of education.
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My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
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I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.
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We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.
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We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.
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The mind creates those things that exist.
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