Great Writing Quotes by Author Simone de Beauvoir

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

Writing is a trade … which is learned by writing.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman. What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

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