Aldous Huxley Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspiration, Writing, People

  Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.214, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

• A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 13

• If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Cat, Novelists

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

• If you want to write, keep cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Cat, Want

• I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Ideas, Happens

• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Individuality, Literature

  "Stories, Essays, & Poems".

• I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Ambition, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

• I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

• Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Mind, Persons

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

• I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

  Aldous Huxley

  Business, Writing, Mean

• In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Writing, Reality

  "The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley".

• I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Writing, Wind

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

• Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Clever, Stupid

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 2, 1932.

• It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Novel, Sentiments

• he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Effort, Unsuccessful

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Writing, Byron

• I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

• I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Second Thoughts, My Thoughts

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