You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. — 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'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak,… — 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
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
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 have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in… — 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
“I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“With every line I write I kill off the "artist" in me. With every line it is either murder in the first… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — 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
“[The writer] doesn't want a new world which might be established immediately, because he knows it would never suit him. He wants… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain… — 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
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the… — 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
“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
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and… — 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
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — 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
“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
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