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What matters most is that we learn from living.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Doris May Tayler
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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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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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I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
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All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.
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The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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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 of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.
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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
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Writers do not come out of houses without books.
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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
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When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
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