A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
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. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
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. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. Doris Lessing English Writer More Doris Lessing Quotes 0