“Your drama should be a franchise.”
- her most recent ex-fiance

“So she drips sex like a broken faucet in the Bronx. So she has an ego the size of the Incredible Hulk on a bad day. Truth be told, Anaiis fills for all of us the same need Madonna does: we like to have a beautiful whore tell us what’s what. Preferably with a leather heel on our jugular.”
– Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Labyrinth, Yume No Hon and The Orphan’s Tales Chronicles

“[The letter she sent me] was sprayed with perfume and contained a solitary sentence written in impeccable black script. Although it didn’t contain a single curse — and included the word algorithmic — it would still be inappropriate to reprint it in a family newspaper. Just imagine that.”
– Matt Katz, journalist and former syndicated columnist of The Bachelor Pad and Gender Lines

“What you are challenged to do is to write an essay and a story in one genre. I think yours are edgy, worth-while experiments in prose. The danger is that the essay is necessarily abstract and the story necessarily concrete, but you, with admirable perversity, have managed to combine them.”
– Howling Wolf, author of Art & Silence and Religion in the Making

“Chief ho, #1 girl, daddy’s best girl, Lady Asunto, queen of asuntos, the little lifesaver, amanuensis–and more!”
– John Bowe, journalist, author of Gig and the critically acclaimed Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy, and co-writer of the movie Basquiat

“Did you just call all us bitches? I thought that was my special name alone.”
- Dave Armano, design and digital marketing genius and author of the totally it blog Logic + Emotion.

“i dunno how hi ur IQ is but i know ur talents r wasted on mere mortals.”
- Greg Oguss, a film, TV, and media critic who’s in everything from ‘zines to academic publications.

“Your diaries are the diaries of intellectual and sensual adventures, the best kind in my book.”
- Poul A. Costinsky, the brilliant polyrealist artist

“I enjoy these dispatches. Very interesting.”
- Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy, author of the fabulous, The Affected Provincial’s Companion, Vol. I

“You’re the most attractive writer I’ve ever had under me.”
- Chris Sick, former editor of Black Heart Magazine

“Your blog is lovely. Elegant and funny. It’s a difficult mix.”
- TheBloggess, kawasakied blogger, Houston Chronicle columnist and member of the Twitterati

“You’re a ROCK STAR!!!”
- Jim Long, cameraman for NBC

“baby, ur silly, but in the best way.”
- Brooks Bayne, tycoon and former rock star.

“You are very fabulous, I can tell that’s your brand.”
- Laura Fitton, the genius behind Pistachio Consulting

“On the surface, people see a beautiful woman, assured of her sexuality with the confident air of a fire breather, and they are intrigued. I must admit that’s what drew me here too. But what made me stay, and kept me coming back, is that you are a damned fine writer. You’ve won me over with your mind, despite your hideous visage. ;)”
- Adele McAlear, marketing marvel at McAlear Marketing and co-founder of DigitalEve

“You are brilliant. You know that, right?”
- Tim Siedell, co-founder of Fusebox, a brand communications studio

“Teach me to write… please.”
- Amanda Chapel, sex-sells PR genius and brains behind Strumpette, the naked journal of PR

“You are so beautiful, my dear, that were I not a Kinsey 6 and if our friendship wasn’t so brother/sisterly I would totally be into you.”
- Atherton Bartelby, gifted writer, brilliant designer, BFF and incorruptibly gay

“It’s the sphinx, filmed somewhere outside of Thebes with a night vision camera!”
- Tony Grist, poet, writer, thinker and photographer

“probs i did it cuz i wanted to fuck da daylites outta her.”
- musician Lil Beck, when asked whether he wrote the song Japtina for art

“Being here surrounded by Soviet minefields as old as our breath reminds me of you.” - a marine in Afghanistan

“I believe every word I have read from you. Why not? Why not pick up an attractive hitchhiker along the highway to Hell? I’m making the best of my gilt cage, maybe freedom won’t suit me.”
- an inmate in New Mexico

“Her journal is always fun, always fabulous and always entertaining. Reading her is like watching Sex in The City. So much so, that I am convinced her voice sounds like Sarah Jessica Parker.”
- Whoopseedaisy

“The most fabulous den of debauchery and debutantes.”
- Jupitah

“Why, the zeitgeist blows from you, sweetie!”
- Seaslug of Doom to AV, quoting Jennifer Saunders

“Would Anaiis count as a Scary Sadshaw blog?”
- Fort Kanji

“‘Daaaahling! What a performance! What a performance!’ (airkiss, airkiss).”
- Oursin, quoting Noel Coward’s all-purpose tactful remark to leading ladies after a First Night

“You will NOT regret having Anaiis friended, trust me. She’s awesome and exciting and a super writer besides.”
- The Red Shoes

“One day you should collect your entries and make them into a book.”
- Shellefly

“She’s like a walking TV show.”
- Grammargirl

“Jesus Mary Joseph and all the saints in heaven. I leave for ten minutes and you get hit by a car. What are we going to do with you?”
- Magdalena Down

“Holy-fucking-hot-mary-mother-of-god!!!! I feel like a violin being played by Heifetz!”
- Orange Velcro

“Anais Nin and so much more.”
- Sejdb

“[She] is a siren, pursing lips and exhaling blue smoke into the cool night air. Devastatingly sexy, brilliant, and a silky petal both comfortable with bruising and blossom. Fearless, savage, delicate and yearning. She encompasses Erato, in the same breath that she mutters ‘besides.’”
- Fetishmystique

“[In another reality], she’s got a secret tattoo of the first poem he ever wrote her somewhere that no one but he will ever see. And he likes to meet her in bars on the shady side of town and they pretend they’re strangers and she is writing an Anais Nin-style memoir about all the men she’s been with, who have all been him.”
- Mr. Quackenbush

“I think you would be equally comfortable granting immortality as you would be putting someone’s eyes out; I can totally see you doing the whole ’savage and beautiful’ thing in the moonlight, and then setting a pack of hounds on some hapless fool.”
- Pwan Madthingy

“I’ll be the Henry Miller to your Anais Nin, anytime.”
- Boozinjoebubala

“I aspire to be as excellent a writer as you.”
- Sirena73

“Love the texture of her writings and the consistency of her flavour. I admire her voracious exploration of the sensual.”
- Dischroicynosure

“I totally enjoy the way you write: travel, fashion, erotica–informed, intriguing, and punctuated with courageous (some might even say reckless, for their tastes) wit.”
- Gourmet Faerie

“Laser-cut, top-grain leather skirt warmed to slightly above body temperature.”
- Fancychopstix

“Dominant, logical, social, kinky, sophisticated, spontaneous.”
- Jenny Grrl

“In a bar; in a car; in a bed; in my head; in a box; wearing socks; on the beach; with a peach; on a ship; with a whip; absolutely every way, and, at least, twice a day.”
- Ironed Orchid

“You are gorgeous.”
- An0nimity

“OMG, you are such a trip. When God made you he must have been sporting a wicked grin.”
- FoulBastard

“Shameless minx! No wonder I love you so!”
- DNACowboy

“You’re a Grecian statue for many women.”
- No Absolutions

“You were always Quinn. You just tried really hard to be Daria.”
- Laura No Esta

“You’re beautiful. A bit neurotic, though.”
- Picture Kept

“You are so grounded, missy.”
- Reticent Manner

“You remind me of a kitten-who-can-become-a-cat.”
- No Good Sea Shanty

“You, my dear, would be thoroughly dislikable if you weren’t so fabulous.”
- Girl Eevviill

“So often are we on the same train of thought, mere carriages apart.”
- Paracelsus

“We are our own objects of Art, what more can be said? And we’re not evil because, like, we’re not boring, duh!!!”
- Acraein

“Solitary yet love-profusive queen of some beautiful north-Pacific island. Greeks had a name for it: siren.”
- Kirlir

“While I’m totally guilty of reading and running, you tend to write things that I do mull over for days.”
- Walking Boots

“Over the years your journal has become more than a passing entertainment to me. With every entry I read I feel I learn something new about myself.”
- But Whisper

“You’re more American than most Americans.”
- Melvin Udall

“You have overtaken me with passion and spirit… You are the payoff to the setup of this social network.”
- Sabrescribe

“You are a very good writer, and if English isn’t your native language, I have to elevate that to ‘astonishing.’”
- Orpheus77

“Your posts [are] the ones I look for on my friends page, with a large cup of coffee in my hands and slippers on my feet, the way some people settle in with the Sunday paper or the new Cosmo.”
- Shotgun the Moon

“What you do IS incredibly important. Every word we write, I think, creates a ripple.”
- xfyresprytex

“You know, the wonderful thing about circling your shining star is not just the enervating, life-giving warmth, or the brilliant light that also casts delightful deep, dark shadow, though that is wonderful enough. It is the other planets in your orbit, sweetie-darling! It is a solar system of WOW!”
- Seaslug of Doom

“I regard you in the same way I regard that Venus fertility icon I’ve only ever known abstractly through art history projector slides. You are the ruins of the Delphian Oracle reupholstered in KY Jelly.”
- Balistar

“You’re like a walking thesaurus of incomparable extravagance. A vast accumulation of sophistication and unpredictability.”
- Darkned Chivalry

“[Your] words reek of some noxious cinematic quality. I have to admit that I’ve never met anyone that has concocted such massive quantities of contrived horseshit as you have. You are the queen of contrived horseshit. I think that would make a fabulous icon for you.”
- Jack Snow

“You scare me. All I know is that I definitely don’t want to have a conversation with you in person. I think that would cause undue havoc. You are dangerous… not to me personally but to society. We should never, ever meet. Don’t take it as a mean thing or a discompliment. I think you’re actually kinda cool. You just scare me.”
- Neoliminal

“You’re a helluva writer, you’re beautiful, you’re driven and you’re full of yourself.”
- Uberdionysus

“She defies the media-imposed stereotype of the party girl as a privately lonely, miserable, and sick figure; of the attractive woman as victim.”
- Evgenesis

“Obscure paradise, too sublime to fit in prose. A tremor held captive in a hurricane, silken intention with a whip smart grin. Mighty, lewd, articulate…”
- E-nymph

“Her articulate grace and magnetic attitude open up a new realm of feminine preponderance that I find refreshing.”
- xthepyro

“Divinely sublime and perfect in her beauty and her awe of the world.”
- Massagegodde88

“What is AV’s favorite food? Her own pastorally solipsist clitoris, probably.”
- Balistar

“The mask is pretty but it is the woman underneath who holds my interest.”
- Roomette

“Be warned: This exotic beauty can neither love nor be loved more than she loves herself.”
- Sapience