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
Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.
Hollywood is a mirage factory ...
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
The dream has to be translated into reality.
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.