When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. Ive been much happier unmarried than married. – 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
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. – Doris Lessing