I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“You know the feeling that a great writer gives you: my spirit has been fed and refreshed; it has partaken of something… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“It is the only life I care about—to write, to go out occasionally and ‘lose myself’ looking and hearing and then to… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Shadow children, thin and small, Now the day is left behind, You are dancing on the wall, On the curtains, on the blind.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Leila was sure ifhe partner didn't come and she had to listen to that marvellous music and to watch the others sliding, gliding over… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
![“I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith…” quote by Katherine Mansfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d0d/katherine-mansfield-1781_creative-life_i-sometimes-wonder-whether-the-act-of-su_1068415.jpg)
