D.H. Lawrence
September 11
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer.…God save me from being ‘nice.'
D.H. Lawrence, born this day in 1885, was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century, known in particular for his novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920).
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