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Writing Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
- The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
- Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
- Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
- Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is…
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