A couple Doris Lessing quotes ...

from tonight's reading (The Golden Notebook) ...

"... my changing everything into fiction is simply a means of concealing something from myself."

"I've never met anyone anywhere or any class, colour or creed, who hasn't at some time believed themselves to be writers, painters, dancers or something.
... a hundred years ago it would never have crossed most people's minds to be artists. They recognised the station in life it had pleased God to call them to."