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
fools greater law learning tolerate university
In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
absolutely british countries empire european people
When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
learning memorable college
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
literature events analysis
Literature is analysis after the event.
fiction records factual
I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record,
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.
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.