List of John Hersey Quotes

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John Hersey
Total Quotes 20
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. the main symptom was falling hair. diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.
Falling In Love Hair Fever
I thought of god as being able to talk big and write *very* small.
Writing Able Bigs
When the writing is really working, i think there is something like dreaming going on. i don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . i would say that it's related to daydreaming. when i feel really engaged with a passage, i become so lost in it that i'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.
Dream Real Writing
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.
Life Is Short Firsts Patient
The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.
White Body Normal
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.
Writing Type Satisfied
The writer must not invent. the legend on the license must read: none of this was made up.
Legends Made License
My two major faults are that i row too long and pick up too many women
Two Long Faults
To my great surprise, i never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. they died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. all for the country!
Country Agony Silence
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
Book Age Tin
The reality is that changes are coming... they must come. you must share in bringing them.
Change Reality Share
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
Children Fall Vision
  • Born: June 17, 1914
  • Died: March 24, 1993
  • Occupation: Writer
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