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Famous Anais Nin Quotes
“When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.”
“To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.”
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.”
“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
“I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
“Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.”
“It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.”
“I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.”