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Henrik Ibsen Quotes about Writing

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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Henrik Ibsen
Writing, Feelings, Baths
Henrik Ibsen (1964). “Letters and speeches”

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

Henrik Ibsen
Writing, Related, Written

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Henrik Ibsen
Writing, Character, Wrinkles
Henrik Ibsen (1965). “Four major plays”, Signet Classics

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen
Lying, Writing, Humbug
Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Henrik Ibsen
War, Writing, Heart
" Richard Eyre: In the spirit of Ibsen" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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