Critics Quote by Doris Lessing

“What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.”

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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

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“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I…

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You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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“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…

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I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look…

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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…

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“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot…

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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

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I haven't got the energy to write now.

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have…

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“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.”

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