Doris Lessing

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#on-fiction #storytelling #truth #truth-telling #job

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#life

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#age

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#capable #first-rate #know #like #love

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#planning #focus

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#marriage

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#maturity

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

#inspirational

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#climates #confined #democratic #free #how

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#books #reading #age