#be

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dialect #fiction #our #our time #science

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#expect #inside #labels #slap #talk

The human race has been telling stories since it began. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#began #human #human race #race #since

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#ever #laws #never #nor #novel

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #feel #flat #incredulity #lives

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #dead #give #had #i

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #comes #examined #feminists #haven

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#became #because #color #communist #ever

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#bit #british #british empire #did #empire

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#always #clarity #greatest #lies #me