Writers are natural questioners. But why? But how? When? Writing allows our questions to flow from our heads to our hands and rise from the page in stories. There, inside the story, we attempt to answer.

We know or have an inkling of what we want our lives to be because we sit in chairs, focused and solitary, and pour our thoughts out. The questions drive us to explore who we are and bring the gems we discover to the surface. 

Here are quotes I like about who it is that writes the stories we tell:

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”  ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else!”  – Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

“No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?”  ― Shams Tabrizi

“What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?”
“The way I want it?”
“Yeah. The way you want it. Don’t you want it to be something more than what it is?”
“What’s the point? I can’t change it.”
“That’s the point. If you don’t, it will change you and it’ll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.”
“Mess it up how?”
“Forgot it.”
“Forgot?”
“Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

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