Author: Henry Miller

Cites

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
  • IN: Tropic of Cancer (1934) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: These novels will give way, by and by, to diaries or autobiographies - captivating books, if only a man knew how to choose among what he calls his experiences and how to record truth truly.
    FROM: An 1841 entry, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1841), Journal, US

Cited by

• Alyson Noel (1)
  • IN: Echo (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, the miracles occur.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Tatiana de Rosnay (1)
  • IN: Other Story (2013) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
    FROM: Henry Miller on Writing, (1964), Book, US
• Vitomil Zupan (1)
  • IN: Minuet for Guitar (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In man's world beauty was linked with suffering and suffering with salvation. Nothing of the sort obtained in Nature.
    FROM: Nexus, (1959), Book, US
• Guillaume Musso (1)
  • IN: Girl on Paper (2010) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: What is the point of books, if not to bring us closer to real life, if not to make us all the more eager to live it?
    FROM: The Colossus of Maroussi, (1941), Book, US
• Eduardo Halfon (1)
  • IN: The Polish Boxer (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I have moved the typewriter into the next room where I can see myself in the mirror as I write.
    FROM: Tropic of Cancer, (1934), Novel, US
• Michael Marshall Smith (1)
  • IN: Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
    FROM: Big Sur and Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, (1957), Book, US