Anais Nin Quotes

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

I used to love writing in my journal.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Writing makes you more human.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

I do a lot of journaling.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

People need to express themselves. The more you do that, the better a person you become.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

I write because I want to have more than one life.