--- title: "1 Writing Didn Quotes By Hélène Cixous" description: "1 Writing Didn quotes by Hélène Cixous. Plus more from Hélène Cixous and more Writing Didn sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7dc/h-l-ne-cixous-3823_feminism_and-why-don-t-you-write-write-writing-is_1005829.jpg" --- > [“And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written. (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven.) Because writing is at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/and-why-don-t-you-write-write-writing-is-for-you-you-are-for-you-your/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7dc/h-l-ne-cixous-3823_feminism_and-why-don-t-you-write-write-writing-is_1005829.jpg) ## More by Hélène Cixous > [“(Because Jonah’s real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/because-jonah-s-real-story-is-the-one-never-told-never-was-he-as/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/i-too-overflow-my-desires-have-invented-new-desires-my-body-knows/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/what-happens-events-interiors-snatch-them-from-the-cradle-from-the/) [Helene Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams. And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/and-i-i-drink-i-burn-i-gather-dreams-and-sometimes-i-tell-a-story/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“The author of what I describe is not myself, it is the Other. First of all it is you, it is the woman, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/the-author-of-what-i-describe-is-not-myself-it-is-the-other-first-of/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/perhaps-what-i-do-not-manage-to-operate-rapidly-enough-is-the-passage/) [Helene Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/to-fly-steal-is-woman-s-gesture-to-steal-into-language-to-make-it-fly/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Those I love go in the direction of what they call the last hour—what Clarice Lispector calls, “the hour of the star,” “the hour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/those-i-love-go-in-the-direction-of-what-they-call-the-last-hour-what/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“...and this morning I am without fire, my marrow is ash, I am very sad.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/and-this-morning-i-am-without-fire-my-marrow-is-ash-i-am-very-sad/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/me-too-i-make-do-i-anoint-what-cannot-be-fixed/) [Helene Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/writing-in-its-noblest-function-is-the-attempt-to-unerase-to-unearth/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Here I am now. And it is hell. Paradise? Yes, I still am here, but who? only myself, with my small waist, my small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/here-i-am-now-and-it-is-hell-paradise-yes-i-still-am-here-but-who/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Knowledge from experience: the heart goes blind because the need is stronger than anything else. Your ego is blind, your id is eager. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/knowledge-from-experience-the-heart-goes-blind-because-the-need-is/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/i-see-nothing-i-do-not-move-it-is-an-empty-time-animal-time-vigilant/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Go, fly, swim, bound descend, cross, love the unknown, love the uncertain, love what has not yet been seen, love no one, whom you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/go-fly-swim-bound-descend-cross-love-the-unknown-love-the-uncertain/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing-didn/h-l-ne-cixous/#itemlist", "name": "1 Writing Didn Quotes By Hélène Cixous", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And why don't you write? Write! 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