Doris Lessing's Nobel lecture: On Not Winning the Nobel Prize.
Writing, writers, do not come out of houses without books.
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1 comment:
Thanks for posting this. It was a wonderful speech. Second to the part about writers coming from houses with books, I particularly loved this line:
"...even quite reasonable people will confess that once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging and blugging etc."
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