Jane Canfield Quotes & Sayings

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom. — Madeleine L'Engle

When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.
- But there's no place like that in this world.
- Exactly. Which is why I'm living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break. — Haruki Murakami

Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas's house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem meagre and lifeless
as, in the same way, the narratives called biographies pale and shrink in the face of the disorderly actuality that is a life. The house also stirred my imagination as a metaphor for the problem of writing. Each person who sits down to write faces not a blank page but his own overfilled mind. The problem is to clear out most of what is in it ... The goal is to make a space where a few ideas and images and feelings may be so arranged that a reader will want to linger awhile among them, rather than to flee, as I wanted to flee from Thomas's house. — Janet Malcolm

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It's a way to find healing, and to healing others. — M. Kirin

I knew the instant Margaret spoke that she intended to use me as a weapon. What you fail to understand is this: I am her weapon to use. — Courtney Milan