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Danh ngôn của Doris Lessing (Sứ mệnh: 6)

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
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.
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.