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Writer Quotes by Anais Nin
- The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on…
- I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite…
- The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
- The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing…
- The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar…
- I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I…
- Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want…
- A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
- For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for…
- The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads…
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