Point Defects

Famous quotes containing the words point and/or defects:

“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 don’t know—Nigeria, 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 novel—the quality of philosophy.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)