Literature
- 2nd Chance (novel), a 2003 novel by James Patterson
- Second Chance, a fictional spacecraft in the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton
- Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, a 2007 non-fiction book by Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Second Chance (Left Behind: The Kids), a 1998 novel by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye; part of the Left Behind: The Kid series
- Second Chance (novel), a 2004 novel by Danielle Steel
- "Second Chance" (short story), a story by Orson Scott Card
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“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)