Books Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image “I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Education Reading School Taught
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years. — Pinetop Perkins Copy Share Image
Nobody taught me anything all my knowledge came from my own mistakes, choices and experience. — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time. — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I… — Warren Buffett 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
