Etty Hillesum Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

  Etty Hillesum

  Believe, Creativity, Writing

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.318, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

  Etty Hillesum

  Writing, Islands, Black

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

  Etty Hillesum

  Writing, Born

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.341, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.

  Etty Hillesum

  Writing, Heart, Loss

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.637, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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