Famous quotes containing the words living and/or areas:
“To love one child and to love all children, whether living or deadsomewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest mansomewhere these, too, come together.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)
“The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we dont knowNigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novelthe quality of philosophy.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)