British - Novelist | 1945 -
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive the prize and one of only 11 female winners in its history. Her award was the end of a very long journey from a remote farm in Rhodesia to a banquet at Stockholm's Stadshus, the grand city hall in Stockholm.
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There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is a whole life.
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If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a writer.
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The great thing about the public is that they're quite capable of believing two absolutely contrary views at the same time.
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The point about 'state-of-the-nation' novels is not that they should be about the 'state-of-the-nation', but they should be about people.
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