Doris Lessing Love Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.