Doris Lessing Quotes About Love, Fame, Time, Religion, Talent

Doris Lessing Quotes:

A story is how we construct our experiences.
Doris Lessing

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.
Doris Lessing

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
Doris Lessing

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing

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Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
Doris Lessing

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Doris Lessing

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation – but they don’t.
Doris Lessing

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier unmarried than married.
Doris Lessing

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
Doris Lessing

I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing

I don’t think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Doris Lessing

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It’s a cruel and evil government.
Doris Lessing

I think a writer’s job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone’s read a book of mine, they’ve had – I don’t know what – the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That’s what I think writers are for.
Doris Lessing

I think kids ought to travel. I think it’s very good to carry kids around. It’s good for them. Of course it’s tough on the parents.
Doris Lessing

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Doris Lessing

I wasn’t an active feminist in the ’60s, never have been.
Doris Lessing

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
Doris Lessing

In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing

It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing