Henry Miller Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

  Henry Miller

  Liars, Lying, Writing

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.247, New Directions Publishing

• Writing is its own reward.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Rewards

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Trying

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Helping, God Help Me

• What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Artist

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Acceptance, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain.

  Henry Miller

  Pain, Live Life, Writing

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

  Henry Miller

  Integrity, Home, Writing

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

• Work on one thing at a time until finished.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, One Thing At A Time, Finished

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Typewriters, Talking

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Self

• He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Trying, Viruses

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Song, Writing

• America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Artist, America

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

• It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Water, Doe

  Henry Miller (1952). “The books in my life”, p.216, Рипол Классик

• I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Lines, Action

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

• When you can't create you can work

  Henry Miller

  Writing

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Paper

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

  Henry Miller

  Communication, Writing, Important

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.246, New Directions Publishing

• You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Voice, Millions

• Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Adventure, Discovery

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

  Henry Miller

  Giving Up, Believe, Writing

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

• Writing, like life itself,
  is a voyage of discovery.

  Henry Miller

  Nature, Writing, Discovery

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Writing, Sitting

  "Henry Miller: The Last Days" by Barbara Kraft, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2013.

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