19 Quotes by Maxwell Perkins

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don’t put too much trust in them.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist’s point of view or the writer’s conscience.