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
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
dimensions surprised ways
I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
women
I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
I have ideas that I will probably never write now.
life
I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.
good written
You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
cannot five mould whether women
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.
gives
I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
I haven't got the energy to write now.
sweating
I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
almost few list paper shop war
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.
hold spend takes
It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'