Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes about Writing

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I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Music, Selfish, Writing

Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Writing, Needs, Diaries

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Writing, Blood, Hands

Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes about Writing

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