“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.”
- Terry Tempest Williams
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March 8, 2009 at 1:08 pm
this is gorgeous, I relate to it in every way… gosh, writing because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love… I am going to put this on my fave quote list…
March 8, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Beautiful. Really moving.
March 9, 2009 at 1:39 am
She’s coming to Portland in a couple of weeks. I really should go. I love her writing. This is a fine, fine example.
March 9, 2009 at 3:19 am
I need to take more risks… .
March 9, 2009 at 4:59 am
TTW is one of my favorite authors!
March 11, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Fantastic – so resonant – really speaks to me.