It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself.… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times... — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
