The Quotable Anaïs Nin, Volume Two

The first Quotable proved the appetite and the method: Nin's audience wanted her in daily doses, and the citation rule kept the book honest in a field where her name is routinely attached to lines she never wrote. The second volume extends the mining — the diaries in both tellings, the fiction, the essays, and the lectures all yield — with the five-part thematic arrangement replacing the first volume's straight run.

Together the two volumes hold 730 verified quotations, which is, among other things, a reference achievement: a substantial fraction of the authentic aphoristic Nin, sourced. We list both volumes under quotations collections on her shelf — her words, an editor's architecture.

365 sourced quotations in five thematic sections — life; love and sensuality; consciousness; women and men; writing and art — with citations throughout and an introduction by the editor. The selection draws across the whole shelf, the unexpurgated diaries included, so lines unavailable to earlier quotation-gatherers appear here sourced for the first time.