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“ 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. ”

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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

~ Doris Lessing

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do, or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

~ Doris Lessing

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

~ Doris Lessing

Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

~ Doris Lessing