About Doris Lessing:

Doris May Lessing is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

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Small things amuse small minds.

Doris Lessing

You know, 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.

Doris Lessing

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Doris Lessing

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Doris Lessing

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.

Doris Lessing

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

Doris Lessing

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Doris Lessing

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Doris Lessing

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Doris Lessing

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 countr...

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The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Doris Lessing

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

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I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

Literature is analysis after the event.

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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

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Author Bio

NameDoris Lessing
DescriptionBritish novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
BornOctober 22, 1919
DiedNovember 17, 2013
CountryUnited Kingdom
ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist; Playwright; Autobiographer
WorksThe Grass Is Singing; The Golden Notebook; The Good Terrorist; The Cleft
AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Somerset Maugham Award; Austrian State Prize For European Literature; WH Smith Literary Award; Grinzane Cavour Prize; James Tait Black Memorial Prize; David Cohen Prize; Prince Of Asturia Literary Prize

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