Iris Murdoch
British novelist and philosopher
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I never wanted to be a writer. I loved words, but I was not a word-user, rather a word-watcher, in the way that some people are bird-watchers. I loved languages but I knew by now that I would never speak the languages that I read. I was one for whom the spoken and the written word are themselves different languages.
—Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopher, A Word Child, 1975
Posted on December 20, 1999 at 4:38 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
—Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopher, The Black Prince
Posted on June 12, 2001 at 9:03 PM
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