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This Lambda Literary Award anthology showcases the diverse visions of literary lesbian writers--women who have loved women and write from that place; includes great pieces by terrific writers such as Mary Gaitskill, Cheryl Strayed, Ana Castillo, Carole Maso, Carol Anshaw, Stephanie Grant, and others.
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Jan 24, 2019 · “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anais Nin. We’re in this seemingly indescribable entanglement with our writing — most of us anyway — this symbiotic flux...
Dec 17, 2023 · We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. Indeed, the power of storytelling lies in its ability to make your legacy discoverable by future you and others.
Taste definition: to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth. See examples of TASTE used in a sentence.
- Write to Find Meaning
- Write to Create A World of Your Own
- Write to Transcend Life and Reach Beyond It
- Write to Get Better at Expressing Yourself
- Write Out of A Deep Inner Necessity
“Writing to me means thinking, digging, pondering, creating, shattering. It means getting at the meaning of all things; it means reaching climaxes; it means moral and spiritual and physical life all in one. Writing implies manual labor, a strain on one’s conscience and an exercise of the mind … Yes, my life flows into ink! And I am pleased. For I c...
“Why one writes I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in ...
“We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak wit...
“I didn’t have any particular gift in my twenties. I didn’t have any exceptional qualities. It was the persistence and the great love of my craft which finally became a discipline, which finally made me a craftsman and a writer. The only reason I finally was able to say exactly what I felt was because, like a pianist practicing, I wrote every day. ...
“…You don’t write for yourself or for others. You write out of a deep inner necessity. If you are a writer, you have to write, just as you have to breathe, or if you’re a singer you have to sing. But you’re not aware of doing it for someone. This need to write was for me as strong as the need to live. I needed to live, but I also needed to record w...
Isa. Anais Nin — ‘We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.’.
to perceive or distinguish the flavor of: to taste the wine in a sauce. to have or get experience, especially a slight experience: these young men who had only begun to taste life. to perceive in any way.
