#out

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#because #being #church #enjoy #every

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cause #down #emerge #ever #experiences

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #deal #give

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dead #i #me #off #pleased

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. ↗