All ANAIS NIN Quotes about “Writing”

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
“It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.”
“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
“I write emotional algebra.”
“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”
“I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.”
“I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
“To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.”
“Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.”
“To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.”
“I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.”

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