English - Writer | October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013
I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.
Doris Lessing
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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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My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
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It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
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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.
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I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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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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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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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.
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