Famous Quotes / Doris Lessing
35 Quotations by Doris Lessing
- 1. A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

- 2. All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to s ...

- 3. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a ...

- 4. Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given ...

- 5. Better Counsel comes overnight.

- 6. Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than ste ...

- 7. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't t ...

- 8. If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtl ...

- 9. In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

- 10. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

- 11. It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abst ...

- 12. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

- 13. Laughter is by definition healthy.

- 14. Literature is analysis after the event.

- 15. Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

- 16. Pearls mean tears.

- 17. Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is ...

- 18. Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

- 19. Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

- 20. Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
