Its lovely to have money to give away – thats the bonus of winning the Nobel. – Doris Lessing
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. – Doris Lessing

Its lovely to have money to give away – thats the bonus of winning the Nobel. – Doris Lessing
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. – Doris Lessing
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing
I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont 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
And I think the more money you put in peoples hands, the more they will spend. And if they dont spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that. – Michael Bloomberg