Doris Lessing Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Writing

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

• Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving, Way, Emotion

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

• It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

  Doris Lessing

  Winning, Giving, Lovely

• Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Giving, Landscape

  Doris Lessing (2014). “African Stories”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

• Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving, Profit, Exploitation

  Doris May Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: re, colonised planet 5 : personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) emissary (grade 9) 87th of the period of the last days”, Knopf

• All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving, Interviews, Spend Time

  "If you don't succeed as a writer, be glad" by Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2008.

• What 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 Lessing

  Giving, Grace, Roles

  'Particularly Cats' (1967) ch. 9

• But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

• They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, Giving, Nobel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving Up, Creative Writers, Creative Writing

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

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