The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. Doris Lessing More Quotes by Doris Lessing More Quotes From Doris Lessing 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 flats ordinary feels There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. Doris Lessing literature young people What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. Doris Lessing strong imagination simple 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 book people past A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?" Doris Lessing cutting people thinking Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands. Doris Lessing depth two people Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start. Doris Lessing new-start long-ago littles I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains Doris Lessing two lying blood We are all creatures of the stars. Doris Lessing creatures stars It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing. Doris Lessing emotional dancing unhappy Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers. Doris Lessing bad-luck boulders luck For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. Doris Lessing generations literature found I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have. Doris Lessing week reading book Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness. Doris Lessing suits sometimes thinking I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life. Doris Lessing common-sense hated feminist ...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see. Doris Lessing wells old-friends want Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. Doris Lessing space time fiction As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. Doris Lessing nobel-prize prize nobel All my friends' mothers were appalling women. Doris Lessing mothers-day mother inspiring A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. Doris Lessing falling-in-love ideas fall
