Anais Nin Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Commitment, Culture

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Life, Memorable, Writing

• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Writing, Ideas

• We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Writing, Heart

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

• It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Emotional, Movement

• The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Writing, Journey

  "French Writers of the Past" by Carol A. Dingle, (p. 126), 2000.

• You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Feelings, Wave

• That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Fusion, Essentials

• I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Writing, World

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

• I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Writing, Focus

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

• Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

  Anais Nin

  Country, Art, War

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

• Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

  Anais Nin

  Music, Writing, Wine

• I write emotional algebra.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Emotional, Algebra

• Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Two, Reactions

• I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Writing, Prison

• The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Imagination, Black

• Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Duplicity, Generosity

• Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Age, Needs

• Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Vitality, Essentials

• To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Temperature, Should

• I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Records, Needed

• To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Mistake, Mean

• The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Eye, Responsibility

  "Moving to Antarctica : An Anthology of Women's Writing". Book by Margaret Kaminski, 1975.

• We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.

  Anais Nin

  Lonely, Writing, Journey

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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