What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I had to learn, as Balzac did, that one must write volumes before signing ones own name.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It was always my habit to mark excessively the books I liked. How wonderful it would be, thought I, to see those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous,… — 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
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a… — 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
“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was… — 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
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
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
“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
“The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that… — 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
“1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my grandfather was right, perhaps I was spoiled in the bud by the books I read. But it is ages since… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Anyway, in the interim since I turned writer—a good thirty years—I have hobnobbed with all varieties of man, from the highest to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I was afraid to become a writer. I didn't think I had the ability - it was too big a thing. Who… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is… — 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
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
“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.” — 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
“It’s hard to know, when you’re in such a jam, which is worse—not having a place to sleep or not having a… — 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
“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 Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
“(...)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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
