Doris Lessing Quotes

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

— Lorrie Moore

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

— Edmund White

When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive…

— Justin Cartwright

“I wanted to be Emma Goldman. I wanted to digest Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebooks like biscuits. I felt like Harriet the Spy,…

— Susie Bright

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked…

— Janine di Giovanni

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And…

— Amy Bloom

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and…

— Salman Rushdie

“Martha had been struck by a line in a Doris Lessing novel—“I don’t enjoy pleasure”—and decided that what she enjoyed in life…

— Caroline Moorehead

“THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired…

— Yolanda A. Reid

“Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your…

— Kate Millett

“I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as "a story (or novel or…

— Anonymous

“Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a…

— Erica Jong