{"author":"Terry Tempest Williams","author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams","total_quotes":83,"quotes":[{"text":"Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["passion","voice"],"id":6473,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"I am a woman with wings,' I once wrote and will revise these words again. 'I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.' In a voiced community, we all flourish.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["community","feminism","inspirational","women"],"id":10929,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"Your voice is the wildest thing you own,” Brooke says to me. “And you’re giving it away. You can’t see it. Your obsession is blinding you.” He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. “You’re losing yourself.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["giving-away","losing-self","voice"],"id":15428,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out of my passions. And I write to make peace with my own contradictory nature. For me, writing is a spiritual practice. A small bowl of water sits on my desk, a reminder that even if nothing is happening on the page, something is happening in the room--evaporation. And I always light a candle when I begin to write, a reminder that I have now entered another realm, call it the realm of the Spirit. I am mindful that when one writes, one leaves this world and enters another. My books are collages made from journals, research, and personal experience. I love the images rendered in journal entries, the immediacy that is captured on the page, the handwritten notes. I love the depth of ideas and perspective that research brings to a story, be it biological or anthropological studies or the insights brought to the page by the scholarly work of art historians.When I go into a library, I feel like I am a sleuth looking to solve a mystery. I am completely inspired by the pursuit of knowledge through various references. I read newpapers voraciously. I love what newspapers say about contemporary culture. And then you go back to your own perceptions, your own words, and weigh them against all you have brought together. I am interested in the kaleidoscope of ideas, how you bring many strands of thought into a book and weave them together as one piece of coherent fabric, while at the same time trying to create beautiful language in the service of the story. This is the blood work of the writer.Writing is also about a life engaged. And so, for me, community work, working in the schools or with grassroots conservation organizations is another critical component of my life as a writer. I cannot separate the writing life from a spiritual life, from a life as a teacher or activist or my life intertwined with family and the responsibilities we carry within our own homes. Writing is daring to feel what nurtures and breaks our hearts. Bearing witness is its own form of advocacy. It is a dance with pain and beauty.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["writing"],"id":24719,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["voice"],"id":24901,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"Grief dares us to love once more.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["grief"],"id":26683,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are.-Laurance S. Rockefeller.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["conservation","environment","land","national-parks","nature"],"id":29469,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["birth","uncertainty","voice"],"id":30130,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["bewildering","fear","peter-the-wolf","safety","survival","survive"],"id":31382,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"},{"text":"There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.","author":"Terry Tempest Williams","tags":["feminism","inspirational","women"],"id":33353,"author_id":"Terry+Tempest+Williams"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}