"I write because I've always written, can't stop.……" — Doris Lessing
"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."
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Doris Lessing
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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist:…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was…
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
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Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and…
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
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I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what…
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I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an…
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Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three…
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them…
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're…
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He…
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I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.
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