The prolific author and essayist,who died on Thursday, was famous for her wonderfully honest way with words – share your favourite quotesAuthor Jenny Diski dies aged 68Obituary by Kate Kellaway: ‘Depression, and withdrawal,extinction: all these she was able to transcend in words’Death, drugs, or Doris Lessing – there was no topic Jenny Diski could not tackle with her pithy wit and personable honesty. Diski,who died aged 68, wrote most frequently about her cancer diagnosis in her final months – but retained her ability to write in the erudite (learned or scholarly) and inimitable way that attracted so many readers to her London Review of Books column. Here are 10 of our favourite quotes of hers – whether you would like to contribute more, or please add them in the comments.
The thing is,nobody is better at having cancer than me, in the sense that I like nothing more than sitting on the sofa doing fuck all and trying to write. – interview with the Observer.
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Source: theguardian.com