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jloughranauthor: “There are no laws for a novel. There never has been, nor can there ever be.” - Doris Lessing

MikelovesSF: “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” ― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

CandyFrank8: It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. - Doris Lessing

wa47137: So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook?Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.,Doris Lessing, Play With A Tiger,comfort, love,

si63656: That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.,Doris Lessing,order, organization,

NobelPrize: “I’d been saying that I’m a writer and all this and I had short stories. But in fact, I hadn’t written a novel..." Doris Lessing speaks about what compelled her to write her first novel. Read the rest of the story in our interview from 2008:

WYCLIFFEJA67711: Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.,Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook,humanity,

BizMarketplace: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

TuJadili: The Pig a short story by Doris Lessing.

MarcoPalagi81: 3 of 5 stars to L'abitudine di amare by Doris Lessing

Momus_Mkosoaji: "...2/2 through; probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women’s Liberation will look very small and quaint." Doris Lessing

Chaos_58_22: ...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. Doris Lessing

bramble: Been kinda allergic to leftist discourse lately. Let me state that the immediate aim of leftists should be to NOT resemble the characters in Doris Lessing's A Good Terrorist. So far, the project is not going well...

mochinaf: yall should read to room nineteen by doris lessing

MarcoPalagi81: On page 218 of 328 of L'abitudine di amare, by Doris Lessing

iMoGalore: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

LitCamb: Live online course: Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny. We study • The Grass is Singing, • The Golden Notebook • The Four-Gated City • The Summer before the Dark Four sessions, fortnightly, Sept-Oct. 2023.

MarcoPalagi81: On page 160 of 328 of L'abitudine di amare, by Doris Lessing

Giburan: 4 of 5 stars to Gatos ilustres by Doris Lessing

fraskyfizzle: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

ian_creasey: 1/2 I've been reading Anthony Trollope's autobiography. At one point he tries to see whether he can repeat his success if he publishes novels pseudonymously – it's interesting how often writers have this desire, e.g. Doris Lessing and J.K. Rowling tried the same thing.

EmpressFeenah: Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. -- Doris Lessing

MarcoPalagi81: On page 78 of 328 of L'abitudine di amare, by Doris Lessing

evan_neilsen: “Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.” ― Doris Lessing

JeffreyStClair3: Doris Lessing: “You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.”

NewHobbies1: You could be the proud parent of a puppy. Or you could keep reading Doris Lessing.

contentmo: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

RichardEvans36: Very sorry indeed to learn of the death of Patrick French. He was only 56, taken by cancer. We met at Wolfson College, Cambridge and had many interesting discussions when I was writing Eric Hobsmawm's biography and he Doris Lessing's. Genial, lively, provocative: I'll miss him.

AllOnFire: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

Scamateurism: "Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions will always be impossible." -- Doris Lessing

WomenRead: "There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought." -- Doris Lessing

sentiny: Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. -Doris Lessing

e_auladeingles: “The two women were alone in the London flat. ‘The point is,’ said Anna, as her friend came back from the telephone on the landing, ‘the point is, that as far as I can see, everything’s cracking up.’ ” The Golden Notebook ~ Doris Lessing

TheEducationMag: “In university, they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.” – Doris Lessing Read More:

pratikbanerjee_: Doris Lessing

Factsofw0rld: Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read - Doris Lessing.

AncientWisdomHQ: "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing

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thedelhiwalla: Coming out next year: “Golden Woman: The Authorized Biography of Doris Lessing”—a book by Patrick French, Somewhere in His Delhi, 2017.

SoloMMSolo1: There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. -Doris Lessing MAYMAY BORN TO SLAY

dovesandletters: I am so fascinated by ancient attempts to design how we live, ancient utopian urbanism that seems so sci-fi, so much something that Doris Lessing would have imagined into being.

imran123389: "Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel." Doris Lessing ZAIN IMAM IN BEKABOO

leahnaipanoi85: What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.,Doris Lessing,Work, Strong, Simple ,

MotivationalMan: "Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible." —Doris Lessing

biblioklept: *Best Books of 1973 Tournament* Round 2, Match 12 The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch vs The Summer Before the Dark, Doris Lessing

sisterrosetta57: took a slim volume I previously owned and got their autographs on one page. Their performance also included Willy Russell who also sang some great songs as well as reciting from his plays. Other people I have seen were Doris Lessing, Jessie Kesson, James Baldwin, Mary Daly,

Lord_Steerforth: I don't know why it's taken me this long to read my first Doris Lessing novel, but I'm really enjoying 'The Good Terrorist'.

DealsOnProducts: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

dozee2009: The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing

Daniel_Red_Eire: Doris Lessing by Roger Mayne, 1959

gilbert64923369: When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.,Doris Lessing,Think, Lake, You ,

annamga26719768: It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.,Doris Lessing,friendship,

ERICMASIBO71851: 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,freedom, love-of-reading, political-commentary, reading,

EumriSrghihdeuu: Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.,Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook,humanity,

soutikBBC: The last time I met Patrick French, he spoke excitedly about his upcoming authorised biography of Doris Lessing. Lessing's work, he said, "united mind, body and feeling". French was a masterful biographer: the Naipaul book is an amazing tour de force. His passing is a huge loss.

kalyanasc: My god. This is truly awful. A really fantastic biographer and a fine person. I am so looking forward to his biography of Doris Lessing (out in 2024). RIP

CEF_Africa: What Are Your Advices For The New Fellows? To the new fellows, the advice is singular. It comes from Doris Lessing, a Literature Nobel Laureate: "Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."

harikunzru: Very sad today to hear of the death of Patrick French. We did two events together, one in which we discussed family memories of war, the second a presentation of his book India: a Portrait. He was working on a much-awaited biography of Doris Lessing.

iMoGalore: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

contentmo: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

city_hobgoblin_: Still only halfway through this, from Lynne Segal back in 2004, but it's great, especially on Doris Lessing

Nell_Nelson: 4 of 5 stars to The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

DrBea: Laughter is by definition healthy. - Doris Lessing

vacasthebrew: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

TheEducationMag: “In university, they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.” – Doris Lessing Read More:

GeorgeMorgan13: There's a bit in Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook from a similar era, describing Georgian terraced houses as 'narrow and mean'

Dilk799187: "Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel." Doris Lessing FAHMAAN RULING AS RAVI

AllOnFire: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

ZoilusPress: Doris Lessing, ‘The Memoirs of a Survivor’(1974) “For some years and books now we have been reading Doris Lessing to find out what’s going on – what is happening to our society’s nervous system” THE GUARDIAN

Britta_Boehler: Marked as to-read: The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

TheEducationMag: “In university, they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.” – Doris Lessing Read More:

Brainymy4098: 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,

Guilie73: On page 91 of 442 of African Laughter, by Doris Lessing

MarcsMoon1290: 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,

HRenkel: "Do you know what people really want?... Everybody in the world is thinking: 'I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me.' That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth." - Doris Lessing

contentmo: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

VascoDaGappah: I was particularly proud to showcase the new Charles Mungoshi Memorial Wing at the Harare City Library, next to Doris Lessing’s wing, and above the Petina Gappah’s Children’s Library. My life as a writer began in this library so to celebrate it with the world means everything.

Domnick29440811: There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.,Doris Lessing,Man, Growing Up, Listen ,

PaulJRobichaud: Perhaps because I have a bad cold this week, I had a vivid dream that I was sitting at a table talking about Jung with the novelist Doris Lessing. I did meet her in Toronto in the early 90s, and she kindly sent me some books by Idries Shah that I'd been unable to obtain. 1/3

MarcsKitty6207: Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.,Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook,learning, politics,

Flowede5660: What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.,Doris Lessing,Work, Strong, Simple ,

tonyfasousa: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

MARTINK90918921: There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.,Doris Lessing,Man, Growing Up, Listen ,

LindaChown2020: “Doris Lessing said I was a child of violence” and other poems by Linda Chown | Poethead

LitCamb: Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny with Anne-Laure Brevet. Join us to study one of the great writers of the 20thC. Four live online sessions, fortnightly, Sept-Oct. 2023.

sharethisquotes: It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. - Doris Lessing

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NobelPrize: Author and Nobel Prize laureate Doris Lessing was a formidable writer who wrote more than 50 books that spanned an astonishing number of genres from realistic narratives to autobiographical works and fantasy novels. Read more about Lessing and her works:

lpdetorres: Doris Lessing: In memoriam

djgreer: Laughter by definition is healthy. —Doris Lessing

AllOnFire: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

parisreview: “I think people are always looking for gurus. It’s the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It’s quite terrifying.” —Doris Lessing

ojalart: “I think people are always looking for gurus. It’s the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It’s quite terrifying.” —Doris Lessing

iMoGalore: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

CandyFrank8: It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. - Doris Lessing

fraskyfizzle: There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing

tracy_reads79: On page 18 of 146 of The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing: So eerie. Nothing has really hap...

king44475758: "Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel." Doris Lessing SIX YEARS OF ADORABLE AVNEIL

tracy_reads79: On page 50 of 146 of The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing: Ben

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