574 Quotes by Doris Lessing

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before ...

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

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.

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

Writers do not come out of houses without books.