Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxleywas an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first in English literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 July 1894
believe writing wind
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...
writing novel sentiments
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
writing mean buying
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.
writing second-thoughts my-thoughts
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
writing effort unsuccessful
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
hurt writing thinking
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.
writing mind persons
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
book writing reality
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
believe writing thinking
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.
book writing byron
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!
writing ideas knows
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 individuality literature
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
book reading writing
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
inspiration writing people
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.