Reviewers Quotes by Doris Lessing

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

— Doris Lessing

“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I…

— Doris Lessing

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…

— Doris Lessing

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

— Doris Lessing

“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all…

— Doris Lessing

I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look…

— Doris Lessing

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now…

— Doris Lessing

“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot…

— Doris Lessing

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

— Doris Lessing

I haven't got the energy to write now.

— Doris Lessing

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have…

— Doris Lessing

“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.”

— Doris Lessing