"You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it."

-- Doris Lessing

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“I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.”
“For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.”
“All the old fellows stole our best ideas.”
“I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.”
“Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)
“As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.”
“I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.”
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

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