Quote #31
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
More from Henry Miller
- The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.
- The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have …
- Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
- The Battle is endless...we who babble and froth at the mouth have been at it since eternity.
- I soon learned that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write write write.
- Perhaps the artist is nothing more than the personification of this universal maladjustment, this universal disequilibrium.
- To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth.
- Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my co…