Doris Lessing (1919 – 2013)

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

Doris Lessing 

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.

Doris Lessing 

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Doris Lessing 

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Doris Lessing 

Literature is analysis after the event.

Doris Lessing