Favorite quotes from Archipelago by David Jacobsen
“I believe that every time I put a word down with the intention of making something to last, whether a story or novel or essay, I am inside a moment in which I better be attempting to wrestle with a matter of life and death.”
“I believe even the sheer act of writing is a matter of life and death, that if I am not here in my place and writing, that I am not seeking with the means I have been given – an ability with the written word – to find meaning that will matter.”
“…where I am sitting when I write is the sacred beginning of any attempt to make concrete via words those matters of life and death the worlds inside my own books seek to explore.”
“…I want to remember why I am here, and why this whole writing thing deserves my deepest attention, and my innermost focus.”
“Words and what they can do are important, because in the beginning was the Word.”
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I am finding my place again and remembering the importance of being where I am now, writing and creating and telling the story that I was born to tell.
And when I am not writing, not working on the story, I am away from the world I have fallen in love with and I miss it. I miss her, my sweet Jaelith, and I am only biding my time until I can return to a world as real as the place where I live and breathe. I like to think that she also misses my company – that they all miss me and will not continue with their lives until I am back and in my place.
Find your place, wherever it is and whatever you are meant to do. Find your place and refuse to be moved from it.
Pen in Motion 