It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – Doris Lessing
I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont 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 Lessing
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. – Doris Lessing