Doris Lessing Love Quotations

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

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

What is a hero without love for mankind.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.