Janet Frame Quotes about Writing

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

Writing, Haunting

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Janet Frame

Writing, Years, Land

Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work.

Janet Frame

Fall, Writing, Ego

All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

Janet Frame

Writing, Journey, Land

Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

Janet Frame

Writing, Eye, Giving

Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

Janet Frame Quotes about Writing

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