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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Rebecca West
Communication, Writing, Mind

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Rebecca West
Writing, Knows, Known

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West
Love, Real, Writing
"The Art of Scepticism" (1952)

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Rebecca West
Writing, Loss, Would Be

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Rebecca West
Writing, Thinking, Hands

Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.

Rebecca West
Wise, Dog, Writing

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Rebecca West
Writing, Race, History

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

Rebecca West
Memories, Writing, Thinking

Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.

Rebecca West
Book, Writing, Might
Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.169, Open Road Media

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

Rebecca West
Writing, Vitality, Fiction

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