Christina Baldwin Writing Quotations

We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.