Quote by Anaïs Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what w

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

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. – Sholem Asch

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card

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No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

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