Actually

You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.  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.
—    Doris Lessing
New York Times interview, 1984
[Found on one of the blogs I follow:  “Interesting Literature“;  which can be found at:   http://interestingliterature.com/
The specific post can be found at:  http://interestingliterature.com/2014/04/16/10-great-quotations-from-doris-lessing/
—    kmab]
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