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Patricia Hampl Quotes

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“I don't write about what I know, but in order to find out what I know.”
— Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, My Favorites
“ I have wasted my life is a cry of triumph—I’m lying here in this hammock doing nothing and haha on you out there working your lives away.”
— Patricia Hampl, I Have Wasted My Life
Tagged: Writing, Work, Rest, My aesthetic
“For meaning is not "attached" to the detail by the memoirist; meaning is revealed.”
— Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, Writing Tips, Memoir Writing Tips
“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, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, Writing Tips, Memoir Writing Tips
“Seeking the congruence between stored image and hidden emotion—that's the real job of memoir.”
— Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, Writing Tips, Memoir Writing Tips
“True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world.”
— Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, Writing Tips, Memoir Writing Tips, Memory, My Favorites
“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, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books
“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, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, My Favorites, Discovery In Writing
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us.”
— Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: human, Being human, Human Connection, Pain, Carrying Our Pain, What We Carry, wounds, Wounded Heart, My Favorites, Wounded
“Memory seeks a permanent home for feeling and image, a habitation where they can live together.”
— Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, My Favorites, Discovery In Writing
“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, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: human, Being human, Human Connection, Human Desires, Opening Up, Connection
“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, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, Writing Tips, Memoir Writing Tips, Memory, Drafting, Listen To Your Voice, Trust Your Voice
“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, I Could Tell You Stories
Tagged: Writing, On Writing, Being A Writer, Writer Quotes, Memoir, Memoir Writing, Experience, Books, How To Write, Writing Tips, Memoir Writing Tips, Memory
“Yet here’s the greater paradox: writing, though performed alone, is also the only absolutely declarative, meaning-beset art form we have. Its purpose is to communicate. With others. More than a painter, much more than a composer, a writer can never “be alone.””
— Patricia Hampl, I Have Wasted My Life
Tagged: Writing, Solitude, Art
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