Anaïs Nin quotes

We shared many of the same writers, but the main thing we shared together was a desire for freedom in the writing.

There has always been two Millers, one the world has known and a very different one registered in these letters and in the diary.

I was very sorry that it was published first, because I suppose many people would pick that up and read it and never know the other Miller. The other Miller is the one I championed.

I do not object to obscenity or realism, but explicitness. It all needed to be blurred like a line in a watercolor. The outline must be less definite.

We used to say all the time, Rimbaud's command was obey the disorder, try to disorganize the consciousness so that you would be able to penetrate other realms

We don't read objectively, we read because there is a certain kind of nourishment we need at a certain time.

Not in the withdrawal from the world, not the ivory tower at all, but the laboratory of the soul, the place from which I drew my strength.

We have a guilt for not creating and we have a guilt for creating, and I think women are really hampered by the guilt for creating.