#very

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#unhappy #very #writing

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

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#today #very #writer #you #young

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

— Doris Lessing

#care #interesting #very #you

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#equipped #everything #going #how #just

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#escape #fact #first #five #i

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#being lazy #drinking #everything #except #lazy

Like everybody I have many different sides. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#different sides #everybody #i #like #many

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit. ↗