Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Write Quotes

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I want to write — I want to write — I want to write and never never never will. I know it and I am so unhappy and it seems as though nothing else mattered. Whatever I'm doing, it's always there, an ultimate longing there saying, "Write this — write that — write —" and I can't. Lack ability, time, strength, and duration of vision. I wish someone would tell me brutally, "You can never write anything. Take up home gardening!"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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 work as one is drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You can't just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else's appreciation.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One writes not to be read but to breathe — I did even then. 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 analyze and disperse one's gloom.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
At night I write letters in front of the fire while C. works at the card table on his Spirit of St. Louis. He says writing 'takes the place of sociability.' It is your form of giving to friends — one eliminates the other. I am always trying to do both.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh