John Hersey Quotes

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

  John Hersey

  Firsts, Hiroshima, Teach

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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• El periodismo permite a sus lectores ser testigos de la historia; la ficción da a sus lectores la oportunidad de vivirla.

  John Hersey

  Escribir, Oportunidad, Dar

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

  John Hersey

  Art, Finals, Tests

  John Hersey (1974). “The writer's craft”, McGraw-Hill

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• El quid de la cuestión es si la guerra total en su forma actual es justificable, incluso cuando sirve a un propósito justo. ¿No tiene como consecuencias males materiales y espirituales que superan con creces cualquier bien que pueda resultar? ¿Cuándo nos darán nuestros moralistas una respuesta a esta pregunta?

  John Hersey

  Espiritual, Guerra, Mal

  John Hersey (2015). “Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]”, p.31, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Events are less important than our responses to them.

  John Hersey

  Important, Events, Response

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• Ser escritor es sentarse ante el escritorio en la parte fría de cada día, y escribir; no esperar a que el pequeño chorro de la llama azul del genio brote del esternón - simplemente ponerse a ello, con dolor y deleite. Ser escritor es tirar mucho, no estar satisfecho, teclear de nuevo, y luego de nuevo, y una vez más, y una y otra vez...

  John Hersey

  Pain, Writing, Flames

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• 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.

  John Hersey

  Memories, War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  "Hiroshima's fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2015.

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• Exactamente a las ocho y cuarto de la mañana del 6 de agosto de 1945, hora japonesa, en el momento en que la bomba atómica estalló sobre Hiroshima, la Srta. Toshiko Sasaki, empleada del departamento de personal de la Fábrica de Hojalata de Asia Oriental, acababa de sentarse en su puesto de la oficina de la planta y estaba girando la cabeza para hablar con la chica de la mesa de al lado.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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

  John Hersey

  Change, Reality, Share

  John Hersey (1970). “Letter to the alumni”, Not Avail

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• It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

  John Hersey

  Children, Fall, Vision

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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• To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!

  John Hersey

  Country, Agony, Silence

  John Hersey (1985). “Hiroshima”, Vintage

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• There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

  John Hersey

  Book, Age, Tin

  Hiroshima ch. 1 (1946)

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• El escritor no debe inventar. La leyenda de la licencia debe decir: NADA DE ESTO ES INVENTADO.

  John Hersey

  Legends, Made, License

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• My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

  John Hersey

  Two, Long, Faults

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• La segunda fase se inició diez o quince días después del bombardeo. El síntoma principal era la caída del cabello. Siguieron la diarrea y la fiebre, que en algunos casos llegó a alcanzar los 106 grados.

  John Hersey

  Falling In Love, Hair, Fever

  "Hiroshima".

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• 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.

  John Hersey

  Writing, Type, Satisfied

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• The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

  John Hersey

  White, Body, Normal

  John Hersey (2015). “Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]”, p.17, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

  John Hersey

  Life Is Short, Firsts, Patient

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”, Knopf

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• When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.

  John Hersey

  Sueño, Real, Escritura

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• I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

  John Hersey

  Writing, Able, Bigs

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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