#rite

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

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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

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Doris Lessing

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If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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