I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing
It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – 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 think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – Doris Lessing