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Vita Sackville-West Quotes about Writing

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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

Vita Sackville-West

Life, Time, Writing

Vita Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws (2003). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.125, Palgrave Macmillan

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

Vita Sackville-West

Writing, Water, Levels

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Vita Sackville-West

Writing, Choices, Novelists

Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.352, Macmillan

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

Vita Sackville-West

Writing, Occupation, Lasts

Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?

Vita Sackville-West

Writing, Butterfly, Moments

Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

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