'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.'
Quotes by Aldous Huxley
'Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.'
'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.'
'That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.'
'A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.'
in Point Counter Point