Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CHwas a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 October 1919
distance war world
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
thinking giving nobel
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 before I popped off.
ordinary feels flats
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
children intelligent boring
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
time space fiction
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
hero cities london
I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
hate iran evil-government
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
blair hated
I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
reading
I never stopped reading.
reading school taught
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
thinking talent married
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
war worry let-me
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
thinking lakes lovely
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
world kind feels
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.