Books Quote by Anne Carson

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire…

— Anne Carson

“Love affairs and marriages stand or fall on this secret. Familiarity and the pedestrian realities of everyday life are the enemies of eros.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.”

— Tonny K. Brown

“It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times…

— Edna O'Brien

“People should love in the same way that they should write; insistently, fervently, forever.”

— R. YS Perez

“Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Love is many and truth is just, And so we are; Both What we choose, And we refuse.”

— Edith L. Tiempo

“To write requires passionate love of someone or something - even if it is merely self.”

— Cathryn Louis

“You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and think of…

— Richard Selzer

“Writing is also like love, if one can't have the courage to be a renunciant, they cannot write well.”

— Suman Pokhrel

“Writing is like knowing the beauty you possess inward; the possibilities are endless.”

— Annette Whitaker-Moss