Doris Lessing Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Dark, Night

• This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, People, World

  Doris Lessing (1985). “The Good Terrorist”, Vintage

• The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Self, Tunes

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

• The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Thinking, Long

• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

• The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Book, Long

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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