Iris Murdoch Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

  Iris Murdoch

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.156, Penguin

• I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better.

  Iris Murdoch

  Failure, Book, Years

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.156, Penguin

• any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

  Iris Murdoch

  Book, Fire, Anxiety

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch”, p.127, Univ of South Carolina Press

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