San Francisco Voice

San Francisco is a city which leaves its impressions upon people. In honor of that, writers and artists, comedians and actors, and visitors from across the globe have made mention of San Francisco in print and in voice. Quotes about San Francisco vary as much as the people who make up this city. Each morning, San Fran Voice gives you one to think about as you wander through the city streets, letting it leave its mark on you.

Today’s quote is from Eric Maisel, the local author of A Writer’s San Francisc: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul. If you follow the daily quotes at all, you know that I have quoted him before. Partially, this is because he is quote worthy. But mostly it is because his writing is something which I enjoy, which I return to again and again to feel that kindred spirit that writers in an area can sometimes feel with one another, even though they may not know each other in person.

Tourists come to cities like San Francisco for reasons that run deeper thatn ‘there are things to do here,’ since the things they end up doing, like riding a cable car or traipsing through an anchored submarine – mind your head, please! – are not that special. You wouldn’t spend three thousand dollars to fly you, the wife, and the kids to see if a certain bridge is really golden (it isn’t – it’s red-orange). No, cities like San Francisco are important because the heart needs a break from its everyday aching.

And if there is any spot in the world beautifully distracting enough to cure the aching of an everyday heart, San Francisco is surely it.

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