Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I picked up a book and I read. You can get something out of a book, even a bad book ...… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“this book has begun to grow inside me. I am carrying it around with me everywhere. I walk through the streets big… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The book is sustained on its own axis by the pure flux and rotation of events. Just as there is no central… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and… — Henry Miller Copy Share
