Time Ring

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or ring:

“To put one brick upon another,
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)