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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as "a story (or novel or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
