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…how to choose the form your story will take…Doris Lessing QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)

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I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It’s not that you say, ‘I want to write a science fiction book.’ You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.
Doris Lessing

7 comments on “…how to choose the form your story will take…Doris Lessing QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)

  1. Mira Prabhu
    December 17, 2017

    Reblogged this on mira prabhu and commented:
    “I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. ” For me this is true – all the 3 novels in my Moksha Trilogy represented big issues that had confounded me and which I needed to solve. Thanks, Bridget Whelan.

  2. Kathy (A.K.) Andrew @artyyah
    December 17, 2017

    This is the best quote I’ve seen in a lot time. Thanks Bridget.

    • Kathy (A.K.) Andrew @artyyah
      December 17, 2017

      Bridget. Will you please delete my comment for me. Didn’t mean to leave that email address thanks

      • bridget whelan
        December 18, 2017

        Edited your comment – thanks for coming by Kathy. I always enjoy Doris Lessing – this quote is a reminder that I should go back and re-read her.

  3. Kathy (A.K.) Andrew @artyyah
    December 18, 2017

    As a matter of fact I’m reading her at the moment- Love Again- which is new to me. Serendipitous indeed.

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