Writing Quotes by Aldous Huxley

If you want to write, keep cats.

— Aldous Huxley

“Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— 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

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

— Aldous Huxley

“You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory.”

— Aldous Huxley

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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…

— Aldous Huxley

“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

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of…

— Aldous Huxley

“Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write…

— Aldous Huxley

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

“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

I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he…

— Aldous Huxley

“I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something to say and the power to say…

— Aldous Huxley

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in…

— Aldous Huxley

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,…

— Aldous Huxley

“[F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad -…

— Aldous Huxley

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was…

— Aldous Huxley

“During his long career as an agitator, Hitler had studied the effects of herd-poison and had learned how to exploit them for…

— Aldous Huxley

“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet…

— Aldous Huxley

“A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

— Aldous Huxley