Two Lives Quotes

“It has taken me most of my writing life to understand that my “writing place” is here where I live, and that my “writing voice” is just my regular old voice, the one I use all the time. I am aware that the most important things in my life and my work are so close to me that I didn’t even fully recognize them for a long time.”
― Reeve Lindbergh, Two Lives

“Even when I write fiction, which I don’t do too often, the fictional characters are familiar to me, like relatives I might have had in another life, and the setting is a place I know or have known. If I feel acquainted with the people and the landscape, I can enter this world and imagine what happens there and write it down. For me that world will always be some form of home.”
― Reeve Lindbergh, Two Lives

“Of course, though, there can be treasures revealed in a conversation, whether we realize it or not at the time.”
― Reeve Lindbergh, Two Lives

“Another reason the “Are you still writing?” question is so hard to answer is that to ask me “Are you still writing?” is like asking “Are you still breathing?” Writing is the way I stay aware of being alive, the way I find out what I’m thinking, the way I understand the world.”
― Reeve Lindbergh, Two Lives

“As I sat for longer periods, and looked not at the forest trees but into them, the view began to change and deepen. I began to see the lift of upward curving branches, lighter on the top and rich with rounded darkness underneath. I saw the way these trees fit beside, in front of, and behind one another, sharing soil and sunlight. Where I once saw a wall of trees and called it “woods,” now I see shape and movement and the slow dance of living and growing that I mistook for stillness. I learned that when I was impatient or distracted in my watching, I couldn’t see.”
― Reeve Lindbergh, Two Lives