Doris Lessing Quotes (12 quotations)
1. All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. - Doris Lessing
2. Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. - Doris Lessing
3. For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. - Doris Lessing
4. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't 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
5. I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become. - Doris Lessing
6. In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. - Doris Lessing
7. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. - Doris Lessing
8. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. - Doris Lessing
9. Laughter is by definition healthy. - Doris Lessing
10. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing
11. The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. - Doris Lessing
12. Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing
2. Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. - Doris Lessing
3. For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. - Doris Lessing
4. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't 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
5. I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become. - Doris Lessing
6. In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. - Doris Lessing
7. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. - Doris Lessing
8. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. - Doris Lessing
9. Laughter is by definition healthy. - Doris Lessing
10. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing
11. The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. - Doris Lessing
12. Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing
