Anne Sexton Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• We are all writing God's poem.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Writing

  As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian, October 26, 2000.

• When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Writing, Born

• A woman who writes feels too much.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Too Much, Feels

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Tricks

• I'll
  Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll
  pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll
  write a poem called Yellow and put
  my lips down to drink it up.

  Anne Sexton

  Hope, Motivation, Writing

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• I'm an empress.
  I wear an apron.
  My typewriter writes.
  It didn't break the way it warned.
  Even crazy, I'm as nice
  as a chocolate bar.

  Anne Sexton

  Crazy, Nice, Writing

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Sex, Writing

• I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Thinking, Perfect

• I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Thinking, White

• Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Crafts, Tricks

• It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

  Anne Sexton

  Believe, Writing, Self

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