I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to... — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
