Quotes by Doris Lessing

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. (Doris Lessing)

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. (Doris Lessing)

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. (Doris Lessing)

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. (Doris Lessing)

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. (Doris Lessing)

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. (Doris Lessing)

Laughter is by definition healthy. (Doris Lessing)

Literature is analysis after the event. (Doris Lessing)

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! (Doris Lessing)

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance. (Doris Lessing)