Doris Lessing Quotes About Science Fiction

Quotes about: Science Fiction

• Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the next century. At least half of them I didn't understand at all, though I'm sure that kids today would know exactly what he meant. I'm somewhere in the past. I do think, however, that our brains have been damaged by technology. I meet kids who don't seem to be capable of reading a long sentence, much less a long book.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: progressive.org

• Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

  Doris Lessing

  Time, Space, Fiction

  The Guardian (London), November 7, 1988.

• When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Example, Fiction

• What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

  Doris Lessing

  Fiction, Realizing, Social

  "Doris Lessing: Hot Dawns". Interview with Harvey Blume, Boston Book Review, February 1998.

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