Doris Lessing Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, War

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

• It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, Phoenix

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

• In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Sleep, Writing

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

• We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Parent, Use

• there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Two, Humanity

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.471, Vintage

• ... if you have nothing, you are free to choose among dreams and fantasies.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Fantasy, Ifs

• Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Artist, Nightmare

• Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Warning, Information

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “Under my skin”

• After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, People, Age

  Doris Lessing (2012). “On Cats”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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