"What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it."
–– Doris Lessing (1919-2013), Iranian born British-Zimbabwean novelist
"What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it."
–– Doris Lessing (1919-2013), Iranian born British-Zimbabwean novelist
"Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want."
–– Doris Lessing (1919-2013), British-Zimbabwean novelist
via: Striped notebook, 2016, p.1.