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" With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. "

" It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. "

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Months

" We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always. "

" Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. "

" My father was in the First World War. "

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

" You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. "

" It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. "

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

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

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

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

" My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. "

" It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. "

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

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. "

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

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

" The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. "

" I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. "

" When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work. "

Doris Lessing

Child

Myself

" 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. "

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

" We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. "

" Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. "

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

" When there's a war, people get married. "

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