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May 12 2008
88-year-old Doris Lessing told BBC Radio 4's Front Row (May 12) that winning the 2007 Nobel Prize has been a 'bloody disaster' because the increased media
interest in her has meant that writing a full novel was next to impossible. She's currently working on a partly fictional memoir entitled Alfred and Emily but with all the interviews and photographs, she's found she doesn't
have the energy to write anymore.
"This is why I keep telling anyone younger than me, don't imagine you'll have it forever. Use it while you've got it because it'll go, it's sliding away like water down a plughole."
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