Doris Lessing Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“What is a hero without love for mankind.”

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

“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.”

“The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.”

“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.”

“I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.”

“My father was in the First World War.”

“There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.”

“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.”

“Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.”