Doris Lessing

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cooks #more #process #story #writing

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#greater #law #learning #part #tell

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#destroy #himself #interests #other #person

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#great people #important #important matters #mark #matters

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#eighteen #me #months #takes #usually

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#bonus #give #lovely #money #nobel

It's very interesting what you don't care about. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#care #interesting #very #you

Literature is analysis after the event. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#analysis #event #literature

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! ↗

— Doris Lessing

#chance #god #good #man #too

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#conservative #current #despite #ideology #men