For that is what you are, that is who you are – you are an author. You cannot cease to write any more than you can cease to breathe…This difficult season will pass – your eyes and mind will inevitably be opened once more to the wealth of ideas all around you…And even if the ideas around you fall short of what you seek – even if, as you say, you have not the heart to write… perhaps it is your heart you ought to write of. – Laurie to Jo, on writing

For that is what you are, that is who you are – you are an author. You cannot cease to write any more than you can cease to breathe…This difficult season will pass – your eyes and mind will inevitably be opened once more to the wealth of ideas all around you…And even if the ideas around you fall short of what you seek – even if, as you say, you have not the heart to write… perhaps it is your heart you ought to write of. – Laurie to Jo, on writing

– Trix Wilkins –

The Courtship of Jo March: a variation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

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