--- title: "8 Write Taste Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 8 Write Taste quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Write Taste sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b40/anais-nin-288_life_we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-mome_395883.png" --- > [We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-moment-and-in-retrospection/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b40/anais-nin-288_life_we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-mome_395883.png) > [“We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-write-to-lure-and-enchant-and-console-others-we-write-to-serenade/) [Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bf/anais-nin-288_brainy-quotes_we-write-to-lure-and-enchant-and-console_552931.png) > [ To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write \[...\] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/to-write-with-taste-in-the-highest-sense-is-to-write-so-that-no-one/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4a/anonymous-1_art_to-write-with-taste-in-the-highest-sense_568887.jpg) > [We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-moment-and-in-retrospect/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04a/anais-nin-288_anais-nin_we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-mome_688640.png) > [We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-also-write-to-heighten-our-own-awareness-of-life-we-write-to-taste/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccf/anais-nin-288_able_we-also-write-to-heighten-our-own-awaren_1011161.png) > [“Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-heffington/asking-a-writer-why-they-like-to-write-in-the-theoretical-sense-of/) [Rachel Heffington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-heffington/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b11/rachel-heffington-23960_books_asking-a-writer-why-they-like-to-write-i_1449175.jpg) > [We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-write-to-taste-life-twice-first-in-the-moment-and-second-in/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/anais-nin-288_life_we-write-to-taste-life-twice-first-in-th_2294035.png) > [I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/i-wouldn-t-have-wanted-anyone-to-teach-me-how-to-write-that-s-my-own/) [Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/chinua-achebe-781_my-own_i-wouldn-t-have-wanted-anyone-to-teach-m_2609432.png) ## Top authors on Write Taste - [Anais Nin 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/write-taste/anais-nin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/write-taste/#itemlist", "name": "Write Taste Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-moment-and-in-retrospection/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b40/anais-nin-288_life_we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-mome_395883.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b40/anais-nin-288_life_we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-mome_395883.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b40/anais-nin-288_life_we-write-to-taste-life-twice-in-the-mome_395883.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We write to lure and enchant and console others. 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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... 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If I leave it all chasing round my head like rabbits in a warren, I'm apt to become a bug-bear to live with and my family would not thank me. Some people need counselors. Some people need long, drawn-out phone-calls with a trusted friend. Some people need to go out for a run. I need to get away to a quiet, lonesome corner--preferably on the front steps at gloaming with the North Star trembling against the darkening blue. I need to set my pen fiercely against the page {for at such moments I must be writing--not typing.} and I need to convert the stress or excitement or happiness into something to be shared with another person. The beauty of the relationship between reading and writing is its give-and-take dynamic. For years I gathered and read every book in the near vicinity and absorbed tale upon tale, story upon story, adventures and sagas and dramas and classics. I fed my fancy, my tastes, and my ideas upon good books and thus those aspects of myself grew up to be none too shabby. When I began to employ my fancy, tastes, and ideas in writing my own books, the dawning of a strange and wonderful idea tinged the horizon of thought with blush-rose colors: If I persisted and worked hard and poured myself into the craft, I could create one of those books. One of the heart-books that foster a love of reading and even writing in another person somewhere. I could have a hand in forming another person's mind. A great responsibility and a great privilege that, and one I would love to be a party to. Books can change a person. I am a firm believer in that. I cannot tell you how many sentiments or noble ideas or parts of my own personality are woven from threads of things I've read over the years. I hoard quotations and shadows of quotations and general impressions of books like a tzar of Russia hoards his icy treasures. They make up a large part of who I am. I think it's worth saying again: books can change a person. For better or for worse. As a writer it's my two-edged gift to be able to slay or heal where I will. It's my responsibility to wield that weapon aright and do only good with my words. Or only purposeful cutting. I am not set against the surgeon's method of butchery--the nicking of a person's spirit, the rubbing in of a salty, stinging salve, and the ultimate healing-over of that wound that makes for a healthier person in the end. It's the bitter herbs that heal the best, so now and again you might be called upon to write something with more cayenne than honey about it. But the end must be good. 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