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Better Quotes by Doris Lessing
- I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record,
- In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams…
- Better Counsel comes overnight.
- You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
- Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
- 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…
- In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
- They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before…
- For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,…
- There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
More Better Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius