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You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing
Giving Up, Creative Writers, Creative Writing
"Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.