Jean Rhys Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

  Jean Rhys

  Writing, Lakes, Rivers

• All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Writing, Matter

• I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

  Jean Rhys

  Writing, People, Has Beens

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

• When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.

  Jean Rhys

  Writing, Thinking, Ifs

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