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
Doris Lessing quotes about
months october unendurable
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?
generations literature found
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
labels term critics
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
old-friends want wells
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
southern empires young
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
mets bores
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
autobiography reports interim
An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.
love-is littles sometimes
So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
taken son men
As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
practice ifs knows
If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
stretching i-can
I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
literature periods exciting
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
horse war divorce
On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.
sticks talent capacity
What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.