I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
From Doris Lessing
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
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.
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
When there's a war, people get married.
It's very interesting what you don't care about.
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