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Doris Lessing

I was in New York when Clinto...

I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?

Doris Lessing 352 quotes
Doris Lessing

When you're young you think t...

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes
Doris Lessing

Men are restless, adventurous...

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes
Doris Lessing

I've worked hard all my life....

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes
Doris Lessing

As soon as I got the Nobel Pr...

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes
Doris Lessing

I see every book as a problem...

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

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Doris Lessing

What really fascinates me is ...

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

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Doris Lessing

I would not be at all surpris...

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

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Doris Lessing

I hate Iran. I hate the Irani...

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

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Doris Lessing

I think a writer's job is to ...

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

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Doris Lessing

I remember World War II when ...

I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.

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Doris Lessing

I do not think writers ought ...

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

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Doris Lessing

Whenever I met anyone who kne...

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

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Doris Lessing

Sentimentality is intolerable...

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

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Doris Lessing

My mother died happily of a s...

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

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Doris Lessing

I'm not one of those writers ...

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes
Doris Lessing

I wanted to highlight that wh...

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

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Doris Lessing

You should write, first of al...

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

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Doris Lessing

There's always this sense of ...

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

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Doris Lessing

When I was a girl, the idea t...

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.

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