Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes about Writing

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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.

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

Education, Powerful, Writing

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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'.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Prayer, Mistake, Writing

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beach, Writing, Thinking

"Gift from the Sea".

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Writing, Thinking, Hands

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Stress, Writing, Thinking

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Writing, Feels Just, Biscuits

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Writing, Sleep, Blue

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

Children, Book, Writing

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Art, Writing, Men