Top 116 Quotes by Doris Lessing

About Doris Lessing

These are some quotes by English author Doris Lessing Writer, who lived between October 22, 1919 and November 17, 2013.

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

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

Doris Lessing

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

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

Doris Lessing

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.

Doris Lessing

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Doris Lessing

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.

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

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.

Doris Lessing

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

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

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

Doris Lessing

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

Doris Lessing

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.

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.

Doris Lessing

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