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
men conservative adventurous
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
war father world
My father was in the First World War.
falling-in-love fall ideas
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
stories constructs
A story is how we construct our experiences.
color people political
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
begging-you stealing lending
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
funny mind small-things
Small things amuse small minds.
world kind feels
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
thinking lakes lovely
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
war worry let-me
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
thinking talent married
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
reading school taught
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
reading
I never stopped reading.
work age lasts
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.