Books Quotes by Anais Nin

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

— Anais Nin

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

— Anais Nin

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,…

— Anais Nin

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned…

— Anais Nin

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not…

— Anais Nin

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

— Anais Nin

“Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels,…

— Anaïs Nin

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write…

— Anais Nin

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.…

— Anais Nin

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts…

— Anais Nin

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace.…

— Anais Nin

“Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to…

— Anaïs Nin

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive…

— Anais Nin

“It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great…

— Anaïs Nin

We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable…

— Anais Nin

This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me.…

— Anais Nin

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for…

— Anais Nin

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you…

— Anaïs Nin

“The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I…

— Anaïs Nin

“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This: ??…

— Anaïs Nin

“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot…

— Anais Nin

“The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I…

— Anaïs Nin

Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains…

— Anais Nin