574 Quotes by Doris Lessing

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.