I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. — 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
“A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — 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'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
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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad -… — 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
“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 know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example... — 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
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a… — 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
“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
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