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All Quotes by author - Doris Lessing

" All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed. "

" All my friends' mothers were appalling women. "

" Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. "

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

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. "

" Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. "

" Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary! "

" For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. "

" God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. "

" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning. "

" I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. "

" I am your original autodidact. "

" I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. "

" I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. "

" I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. "

" 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. "

" I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. "

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

" I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. "

" I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. "

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

" If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. "

" I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married. "

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

" I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. "

" I have ideas that I will probably never write now. "

" I haven't got the energy to write now. "

" I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. "

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