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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“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“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)
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)