Anais Nin
Anais Nin
Anaïs Ninwas an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She wrote journals, novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1903
CityNanterre, France
CountryUnited States of America
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
Will you come down and kiss me good night?
myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth
Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.
... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
... only love begets love.
To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.