60 Quotes by John Hersey

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Events are less important than our responses to them.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over....

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.