On-writing Quote by Henry Miller Download Open image ““We need good titles.”” — Henry Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare On-writing
“It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.” — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Do not look after people with big titles. Look after people with big characters.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
“I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
“In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire… — Betsy Byars 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
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds… — Jamie Michaels Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe that people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The pain in my hip was just short of apocalyptic. And the first five hundred words were uniquely terrifying—it was as if I’d never… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
