When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
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 LessingI wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Doris Lessing