English - Writer | October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013
The thing is, I haven't changed at all.
Doris Lessing
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I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.
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I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
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If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
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When there's a war, people get married.
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You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
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