Doris Lessing Quotes
An Iranian-born British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
(1919 - )
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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
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Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.
[Maturity]
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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.
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
[Friendship]
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
[Action]
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
[Happiness]
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
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Small things amuse small minds.
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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
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