I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You'd be the first to complain if people didn't write,' Judd rapped out. 'Here's your egg. Boiled for three minutes exactly. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
