Doris Lessing Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

  Doris Lessing

  Successful, Consciousness, Type

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

• At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Events, Population

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.198, Vintage

• The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Mean, Knowing

  "The Golden Notebook (Free Women: 1)". Book by Doris Lessing, 1962.

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