I don't know much about cre... by Doris Lessing, an English Writer

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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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Name: Doris Lessing

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Oct 22, 1919

Profession: Writer

Alexander Berkman Nathan Bailey Mary Teresa Norton

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Literature is analysis after the event.

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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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