Iris Murdoch Writing Quotations

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.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

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 capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.