Doris Lessing Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

  Doris Lessing

  Tyrants, Library, World

• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  Doris May Lessing (1992). “African laughter: four visits to Zimbabwe”

• There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

• There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Bores You

  "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing, (Introduction), 1971.

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