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Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Katherine Mansfield quotes about writing

New zealander Author October 14, 1888 – January 9, 1923

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I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles. Katherine Mansfield
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That’s no matter.) But warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for. Katherine Mansfield
It is the only life I care about—to write, to go out occasionally and ‘lose myself’ looking and hearing and then to come back and write again. At any rate that’s the life I’ve chosen. Katherine Mansfield
The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light. Katherine Mansfield
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one. Katherine Mansfield
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read..."
I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write Katherine Mansfield
I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: " but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate..."
... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. Katherine Mansfield

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