I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
Doris LessingWe do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
Doris LessingFor she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
Doris LessingWhat is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
Doris LessingRecently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the next century. At least half of them I didn't understand at all, though I'm sure that kids today would know exactly what he meant. I'm somewhere in the past. I do think, however, that our brains have been damaged by technology. I meet kids who don't seem to be capable of reading a long sentence, much less a long book.
Doris Lessing