I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris LessingWhen I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
Doris LessingOur society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Doris Lessing