View From the Keyboard ~ Happy Birthday, Doris Lessing
“I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.” – Doris Lessing, b. October 22, 1919. →Reminder to […]
John Steinbeck’s View From the Keyboard, 1962
John Steinbeck’s 1962 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech I thank the Swedish Academy for finding my work worthy of this highest honor. In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel Award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect or reverence–but there is no question of my pleasure and pride […]