Emily Carr Writing Quotations

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.