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Book Quotes by Doris Lessing
- And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the…
- Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.
- With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no…
- I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
- It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That…
- A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers…
- There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping…
- I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps…
- Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise…
- ...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the…
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