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Doris Lessing Quotes

«You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing»
«If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.»
«Literature is analysis after the event.»
«What matters most is that we learn from living»
«Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.»
Author: Doris Lessing (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: blossom
«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.»
«Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.»
Author: Doris Lessing (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: fame, obtain
«It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.»
«It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.»
«What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.»

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