Anais Nin gave me my most original, or so I thought, creation. As I read Incest, I realized that something which I had always taken to be unique, the voice of Myra Breckinridge, was actually that of Anaïs in all the flowing megalomania of the diaries. Of course, I had not read the diaries then, but even so, if only for that one thundering voice, I am forever in her debt.

Ch. 7: "Today My Nerves Are Shattered. But I Am Indomitable!," pp. 107-108 - Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995)