"To be a writer is to sit down……" — John Hersey
"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over...."
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21 Quotes by John Hersey
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To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then…
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The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and…
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There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay,…
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
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My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women
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Events are less important than our responses to them.
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At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the…
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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear…
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
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The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a…
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Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is…
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