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
mets bores
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
literature periods exciting
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
profound might pressure
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.
mutual-help mind different
Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
dimensions way building
I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.