Quotes by Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard

… one doesn’t really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Mistake

Profit

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing — articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

Long

Novelists

Writing

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Expectations

Firsts

Too Late

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Leadership

Literature

Moral

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Humans

Needs

Unhappiness

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it’s like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

Bags

Plot

Superstitions

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn’t true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Advantage

Authority

Over You

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you’re writing.

Pages

Thinking

Writing

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

England

Life Is

Long

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

Bye

Imagination

Spite

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Able

Advantage

Authority

Bags

Bye

Church

Color

Democracy

England

Expectations

Facts

Fear

Firsts

Giving

Government

Guarantees

Happens

Humans

Hurt

Imagination

Law

Leadership

Life Is

Literature

Long

Lying

Marriage

Mean

Might

Mistake

Moral

Needs

Nervous

Novelists

Over You

Pages

Please

Plot

Profit

Realizing

Risk

Sometimes

Spite

Superstitions

Thinking

Too Late

Trying

Unhappiness

Wish

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Quotes by Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard

… one doesn’t really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing — articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it’s like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn’t true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you’re writing.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

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