Analysis Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image “Literature is analysis after the event.” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analysis Books Literature
Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler.… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende 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
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image