Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Doris Lessing
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Meant
Design
Conditions
Impossible
Whatever
Always
Recognition
More quotes by Doris Lessing
All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.
Doris Lessing
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
Doris Lessing
We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
Doris Lessing
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
Doris Lessing
No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing
I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
Doris Lessing
[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .
Doris Lessing
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
Doris Lessing
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
Doris Lessing
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
Doris Lessing
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
Doris Lessing
Literature is analysis after the event.
Doris Lessing
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
Doris Lessing
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
Doris Lessing
If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
Doris Lessing
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
Doris Lessing
