Quote

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Doris Lessing

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
Science
Become
Time
Dialect
Fiction
Space

More quotes by Doris Lessing

Image
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
Doris Lessing
Image
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
Doris Lessing
Image
I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
Doris Lessing
Image
I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
Doris Lessing
Image
What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
Doris Lessing
Image
It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.
Doris Lessing
Image
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
Doris Lessing
Image
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
Doris Lessing
Image
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing
Image
Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
Doris Lessing
Image
Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.
Doris Lessing
Image
I hated the 1960's feminists, she says. They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
Doris Lessing
Image
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
Doris Lessing
Image
If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
Image
A story is how we construct our experiences.
Doris Lessing
Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...
Doris Lessing
Image
Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.
Doris Lessing
Image
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.
Doris Lessing
Image
What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.
Doris Lessing
Image
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing