Jeffrey Root

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“There is nothing to writing.

All you do is sit down a a typewriter and bleed.
E. Hemmingway


We don't write to be understood, we write to understand.........

Love yourself. Dare to dream. Live on purpose!”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I felt the weight of unmapped worlds, unborn language.”
― William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams