Someone was just telling me last night and she had met Lessing at a conference in England in the seventies and when she told Lessing she used The Golden Notebook in her classroom, Lessing said, "Well, bully for you."
Patti: Lessing's not one for being gracious, is she? I mean, the Nobel comment was one thing, but being gratuitously rude to someone paying you a compliment in person is just mean.
Often the two don't go hand in hand, I guess although I've been told numerous times that Joyce Carol Oates is extremely nice and down to earth. Eager to be one of the group and not set apart.
Someone was just telling me last night and she had met Lessing at a conference in England in the seventies and when she told Lessing she used The Golden Notebook in her classroom, Lessing said, "Well, bully for you."
ReplyDeletePatti: Lessing's not one for being gracious, is she? I mean, the Nobel comment was one thing, but being gratuitously rude to someone paying you a compliment in person is just mean.
ReplyDeleteOften the two don't go hand in hand, I guess although I've been told numerous times that Joyce Carol Oates is extremely nice and down to earth. Eager to be one of the group and not set apart.
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