Christina Baldwin Quotes about Writing

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

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

Writing, Reflection, Bridges

Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Christina Baldwin

Writing, Stories, Bigger

Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.11, New World Library

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

Christina Baldwin

Writing, Journey, Maps

Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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

Christina Baldwin

Live Life, Writing, Reflecting Upon

Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.43, New World Library

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.

Christina Baldwin

Jobs, Writing, Silence

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

Teacher, Writing, Diaries

Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.18, M. Evans

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

Christina Baldwin

Writing, Desire, Stories

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.

Christina Baldwin

Responsibility, Writing, People

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.

Christina Baldwin

Writing, Creating, Lifetime

Christina Baldwin (2007). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.31, New World Library