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“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 the street, a book, a phrase learned.”

Quote by Anais Nin

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Anais Nin

Anais Nin, born on February 21, 1903, in Madrid, Spain, and died on January 14, 1977, in Los Angeles, United States, was a renowned American author. Known for her unique introspective writing and dreamlike narrative style, her works include 'Henry Miller's Desires'. more

“I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Wells Enough Use Killing Publishing Writing Well

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.”

Writing Matter Whole Use Form Literature Beauty Invention Relate Range Imaginative Plagiarism Wholesale Borrowers

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series

“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.”

Writing Passion Objects Tasks Let Me Profession Violent Indestructible

Author:George Sand

“The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.”