Book

Henry Miller on Writing

Miller, Henry · 1964

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Context1964lived_experience

What this book knows

Writing is not craft but the act of becoming — the writer must first live, then surrender to the current that runs through him.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

callingself-and-identitywork-as-meaning

calling

the current was running through me and I had no control over it — the mechanism signed with my own initials slowly began to function
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I didn't know a thing about writing. I was scared shitless. But I was determined — it was my first book and I was in love with it.
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self-and-identity

'Why write like them? Write like you are, that's so much better.'
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In a mood of utter despair I sat down to outline the book I must write — like writing my own epitaph.
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work-as-meaning

first comes life, then the caca. Life is change, movement, quest — a going forward to meet the unknown.
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Every word he writes thereafter is Yes, Yes, Yes — no dynamo can combat one man saying Yes!
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Illuminates

8 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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