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“I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'”

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Doris Lessing

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

Funny

Doris Lessing

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.

Truth

Doris Lessing

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

War

Doris Lessing

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Loneliness