Writing Quotes by Henry Miller

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

— Henry Miller

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

— Henry Miller

Writing is its own reward.

— Henry Miller

When you can't create you can work

— Henry Miller

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

— Henry Miller

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

— Henry Miller

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

— Henry Miller

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

— Henry Miller

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”

— Henry Miller

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

— Henry Miller

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

— Henry Miller

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live…

— Henry Miller

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a…

— Henry Miller

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I…

— Henry Miller

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak,…

— Henry Miller

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in…

— Henry Miller

Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and…

— Henry Miller

“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

“A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated…

— Henry Miller

“[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

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that…

— Henry Miller

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an…

— Henry Miller

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

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will…

— Henry Miller

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

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,…

— Henry Miller

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life…

— Henry Miller

“This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit…

— Henry Miller

“I was afraid to become a writer. I didn't think I had the ability - it was too big a thing. Who…

— Henry Miller

You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain…

— Henry Miller

“I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to…

— Henry Miller

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life…

— Henry Miller

“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the…

— Henry Miller

“1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to…

— Henry Miller

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the…

— Henry Miller

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in…

— Henry Miller

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

“With every line I write I kill off the "artist" in me. With every line it is either murder in the first…

— Henry Miller

The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was…

— Henry Miller

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying…

— Henry Miller