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Writers Quotes by Doris Lessing
- I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
- There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
- 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…
- When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look…
- 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…
- Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the…
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