Doris Lessing Truth Quotes

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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.

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

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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.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

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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.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

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