"The critics slap labels on you and then……" — Doris Lessing

"The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms."

— Doris Lessing

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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing has 201 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to…
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat…
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I…
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist:…
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was…

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Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but… — Isaac Asimov
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's… — Kevin Bacon
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media… — Russell Baker
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against… — James A. Baldwin
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my… — Charles Barkley
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and… — Joseph Addison
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point… — Henry Ward Beecher

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