Quotes by Doris Lessing’s motivation - 2

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I'm compulsive.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

I'm just a story teller.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

It's very interesting what you don't care about.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

My father was in the First World War.

Pearls mean tears.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

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