Doris Lessing Quotes

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

Topics

EducationChildhoodWritingSorry

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

Jessica Simpson

SomeoneCareerImportantImageMost

What the world does not need is another script or television writer.

John Gregory Dunne

WorldTelevisionNeedWriterScript

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

John Mortimer

TragedyMinuteThousandPlayedFarce

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

Angelina Jolie

MusicThinkProcessMusiciansMad

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Andy Warhol

LoveFriendMoneyPeoplePainting

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

Alyson Stoner

SportsFitnessEnjoyAnythingGoing

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

Rudolf Hilferding

ValueFindProductionExpression

Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.

Michael Socha

WantMy OwnOwnBecauseLikeAccent

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

Miroslav Vitous

KnowledgeMusiciansSomeoneYoungUs

Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.

Lorde

MusicPeoplePlayNewListenNever

Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

Jason Clarke

LifeFearYouIntenseYourAnytime

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

Donald E. Westlake

WritingLearnYouPageChessMaster

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