Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Quote by Iris Murdoch

Topics: Luck Quotes, Writing Quotes

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they...

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at...

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world...

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy...

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice,...

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice,...

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than...

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than...

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the...

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the...

Anything that consoles is fake.

Anything that consoles is fake.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark...

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark...

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable,...

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable,...

Condiments are like old friends-highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

Condiments are like old friends-highly thought of, but often taken for granted.