Quotes by Jessamyn West

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.