Recording the details of our lives is a stance against bombs with their mass ability to kill, against too much speed and efficiency...A writer must say yes to all of life...Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of life as they exist...We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop there details from continuing.
Natalie Goldberg,
Writing Down the Bones

I found this quote over on Laura's Musings of an Antwatcher blog .

Loved it, blogged it.