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Doris Lessing Quotes

English - Writer | October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

It's very interesting what you don't care about.

Care Interesting You Very About

I am your original autodidact.

I Am Original Your Am

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Fame Worrying Those About Writers

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Myself Best Young Old Empire Undo

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

Beginning Always Hated Tony Blair

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

Feel Living Always Because Sense

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

Mother Children Saying Thought Go

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Hate Government Evil Cruel Iran

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

Think Down True Write Theme Own

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.

Education Childhood Writing Sorry

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.

Father Children War Child Parents

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

Girl People End You Know Forget

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