In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the ‘found subject’ leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead. Amity Gaige Read Quote
I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it. Amity Gaige Read Quote
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are. Amity Gaige Read Quote
Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power – women or men. Amity Gaige Read Quote
