About Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image “I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Every Phrase Single Sitting Sweating Well Write Writing
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I'm determined to get better and better. — Nayeon Copy Share Image
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Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
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I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
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