Doris Lessing Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013
Birthday: October 22
Death: November 17
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.
source: Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers
topic: Philosophy, Army, Should Have, Coal Mining, Mining, American Army
