Anais Nin, on writing:

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

- Anais Nin.

Anais Nin, on writing:

If you do not breathe through writing,

if you do not cry out in writing,
or sing in writing,
then don't write,
because our culture has no use for it.
– Anais Nin.

Anais Nin, on books:

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.

At least they are mine now.

- Anais Nin.