# Anaïs Nin ## Anaïs Nin quotes ### On change [[2024-0527. 'Where people fail is they wish to elect a state and remain. That is a kind of death.'|'Where people fail is they wish to elect a state and remain. That is a kind of death.']][^1] --- ### On courage [[2024-0527. 'Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.'|‘Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.’]][^2] --- ### On masking [[2024-0527. 'When one is pretending the entire body revolts.' Anais Nin.|'When one is pretending the entire body revolts.']][^3] --- ### On writing [[2024-0527. 'Everything can nourish the writer...' — Anaïs Nin, 2000.|‘The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.’]][^4] [[2024-0527. 'For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky... but for the writer...'|'For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated']][^5] [^1]: ‘Anaïs Nin’, *Wikiquote*, updated 7 April 2024, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin. [^2]: ‘Anaïs Nin’, *Wikiquote*, updated 7 April 2024, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin. [^3]: ‘Anaïs Nin’, *Wikiquote*, updated 7 April 2024, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin. [^4]: ‘Anaïs Nin’, *Wikiquote*, updated 7 April 2024, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin. [^5]: ‘Anaïs Nin’, *Wikiquote*, updated 7 April 2024, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin.