I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
Doris LessingSometimes 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 LessingI don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
Doris LessingThe world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.
Doris Lessing