Anais Nin famously said that we write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

And Natalie Goldberg: “Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fast as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there’s another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives everything a second time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it. Looks at the texture and the details.” 

Fabulous quotes. Do you agree with them?