KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Doris Lessing Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Doris Lessing

Showing 111-116 of 116 Quotes by Doris Lessing

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: About Anybody Anybody Else Care Damn Else Emerges First First Of All Important Important Part Life Live Living Part Please Should Such A Way Way Write Writing You Your Yourself

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: About Every Phrase Single Sitting Sweating Well Write

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: About Amazing Different Find First Out Person Someone Very Write You Yourself

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Affect Buildings Dimensions Find Guess Out Surprised Us Ways Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Book Dictates End Every Fiction Form Other Problem Say Science Science Fiction See Solve Start Use Want Write You I See

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Almost Almost Anything Anything Available Books Few Kind Like List Little Look Me Miracle Paper Remember See Shop Very Walk Want War Were World World War World War Ii I Remember

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 22nd, 1919

Died: November 17th, 2013

Links

Find Doris Lessing on Amazon

Related Authors

Douglas Adams
Joseph Addison
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Arthur C. Clarke
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Paine
John Ruskin

Popular Authors

Cesar Chavez Wayne Dyer Marquis De Lafayette Christopher Mccandless Terry Pratchett Socrates Bruce Springsteen Henry David Thoreau

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1878 - Joseph Stalin

1835 - Lyman Abbott

1852 - George H. White

1859 - Francis Thompson

1870 - Hector Hugh Munro

1886 - Ty Cobb

1888 - Robert Moses

1890 - Edwin Armstrong

1904 - George Stevens

1907 - Christopher Fry

Birthdays on December 18th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Freedom Legal Love Patriotism Success Travel Wisdom