Aldous Huxley Quotes

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

I always like to tell a story.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Words are all we have.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Writing is a communication.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.