Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes About Writing
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You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
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What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.
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... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.
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One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.
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When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.
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In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.
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What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.
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Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
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Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.
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Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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I think best with a pencil in my hand.
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The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.
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