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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. ↗

— 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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You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Everybody writes a book too many. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. ↗

— Laura Linney

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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word. ↗

— Laura Linney

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