Doris Lessing Quotes
- It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
- It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
- Literature is analysis after the event.
- Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
- My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
- My father was in the First World War.
- My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
- My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my…
- Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
- September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
- Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
- The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
- The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
- There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
- 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 before…
- Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
- What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
- When there's a war, people get married.