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Aldous Huxley Quotes about Writing

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Reading, Book, Writing

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

If you want to write, keep cats.

Writing, Cat, Want

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Writing, Mind, Persons

Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Writing, Individuality, Literature

"Stories, Essays, & Poems".

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book, Reading, Writing

Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 13

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

Writing, Second Thoughts, My Thoughts

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

Book, Writing, Reality

"The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley".

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Writing, Cat, Novelists

Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

Inspiration, Writing, People

Aldous Huxley (1999). “Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience”, p.214, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

Writing, Ideas, Happens

I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'

Writing, Ambition, Men

Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Believe, Writing, Wind

Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Writing, Novel, Sentiments

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Writing, Effort, Unsuccessful

Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

Business, Writing, Mean

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

Book, Writing, Byron

I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

Hurt, Writing, Thinking

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.

Believe, Writing, Thinking

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