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Write Quotes by Doris Lessing
- You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way…
- It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
- Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
- I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write…
- A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers…
- I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
- I have ideas that I will probably never write now.
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