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In the name of all that is holy, tell me why God felt the need to make a hell. It seems so redundant. — Rick Yancey

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction. — Anais Nin

What's real and what's unreal are like two balls that you alternatively toss in the air, catching one as you throw up the other. — Chloe Thurlow

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only. — Anais Nin

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all. — Anais Nin

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. — Anais Nin

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it. — Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. — Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. — Anais Nin

A special buffet would be opened at the end of a suite of rooms, and Prokhorych (the head chef at the club) would be in charge — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips. — George R R Martin

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry. — Anais Nin

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. — Taslima Nasrin

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

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin

Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. — Anais Nin

Drugs in a disco are great for white people because it allows them to feel more Puerto Rican while dancing. — Dov Davidoff

Never fear the truth. It's the lies that will destroy you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. — Anais Nin

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color. — Anais Nin

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. — Anais Nin

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. — Anais Nin

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free! — Robin Williams

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived. — Anais Nin

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground. — Anais Nin