Doris Lessing on writing


	Doris Lessing on writing

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            <STRONG>Looking back, how have things changed in the writing and reading world? <BR /></STRONG>When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. The joke is you have a tough time unless you are a pretty girl with big boobs. If you're a real writer, you'll go on chugging at it and maybe you'll have some luck. Nowadays writers look forward to big advances, parties and champagne. They look forward to a literary life, which to us then was quite incredible. We were very high-minded; we'd write because it was our vocation, and we did it as well as we could. Not one person had any money in those days. We weren't thinking all the time of the rewards for writing--and I personally think that is better. For one thing there was never any temptation to alter what you're going to write because you might get a better review if you say this or that. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/76809856-850C-43AB-8CF2-C74173D11065/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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