"Literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed."

Literature, Decay, Irony, Art

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"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Literature, Example, Fiction, Poets, Writing

"As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Literature, Truth, Wisdom, Regret, Power

"Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Literature, Passion, Art, Life

"Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn't blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Literature, History, Art, Legacy

"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I've never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Literature, Travel, Love, Myth

"I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these BOOKS are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change. My reading of them changes-I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back."

David Levithan, American Author

Literature, Books, Reading, Life, Change

"The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Literature, Art, Writing, Fame, Time

"A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Literature, Novel, Impression, Argument

"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Literature, Writing, Improvement, Honesty, Critique

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Literature, Pain, Learning, Ignorance, Reading

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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."

Morality

"To paint is to love again, live again, see again. To get up at the crack of dawn in order to take a peek at the water colors one did the day before, or even a few hours before, is like stealing a look at the beloved while she sleeps. The thrill is even greater if one has first to draw back the curtains. How they glow in the cold light of early dawn! Is there any writer who rouses himself at daybreak in order to read the pages of his manuscript? Perish the thought!"

Art

"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."

Crime

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

Journey

"Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us ... We would drop our tools, quit our jobs, deny our obligations, pay no taxes, observe no laws, and so on. Could the man or woman who is thoroughly awakened possibly do the crazy things which are now expected of him or her every moment of the day?"

Society

"No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible."

Art

"And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man I was listening had been in it and that despite his bravery the war had made him a coward and that if he did any more killing it would be wide-awake and in cold blood, and nobody would have the guts to send him to the electric chair because he had performed his duty toward his fellow men, which was to deny his own sacred instincts and so everything was just and fair because one crime washes away the other in the name of God, country and humanity, peace be with you all."

War

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"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."

"As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer!"

"Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature."

"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I've never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."

"The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten."

"A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest."

"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

Explore more quotes by Henry Miller

"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."

"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

"There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action."

"Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine."

"No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible."