“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.”
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was the oldest women to have been awarded this.
Her novels include:
The Golden Notebook
The Grass is Singing
For more information: http://www.dorislessing.org/
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