The Hidden Writer Quotes

“Is it not possible that the rage for confession, autobiography … especially for memories of earliest childhood, is explained by our persistent yet mysterious belief in a self which is continuous and permanent.
- Katherine Mansfield”
― Alexandra Johnson, The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life

“I would not be concerned with the secrets, the lies, the mysteries, the facts...I would be concerned with what makes them necessary.
- Anaïs Nin”
― Alexandra Johnson, The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life

“I mark Henry James’ sentence: observe perpetually. Observe the oncome of age. Observe greed. Observe my own despondency.
- Virginia Woolf”
― Alexandra Johnson, The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life