#ever

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cause #down #emerge #ever #experiences

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#drinks #enough #much #never #too

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#embarrassed #fantasies #figures #film #film stars

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #feminist #i #never

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anguish #everybody #feels #going #i

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#delighted #europe #every #i #lot

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

— Doris Lessing

#ever #laws #never #nor #novel