Courage to live Quote by Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

“Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and…

— Henry Miller

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say,…

— 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

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.' ”

— Paul Johnson

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.”

— Samuel Johnson

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

— C. S. Forester

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as…

— Christian Nestell Bovee