Doris Lessing Quotes
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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Pearls mean tears.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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I'm just a story teller.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
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It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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My father was in the First World War.
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I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Small things amuse small minds.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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None of you ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.