Doris Lessing Quotes About War Of The Worlds
-
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
→ -
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
→ -
The first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who used to meet once a week with the sole purpose of analyzing the news and trying to work out what we weren't being told. We thought that we were clever, but we had absolutely no idea what was really going on. It was only years later that we learned the true story.
→ -
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
→ -
My father was in the First World War.
→
Related Authors
-
Iris Murdoch Author -
Virginia Woolf Writer -
Orhan Pamuk Novelist -
William Faulkner Writer -
Toni Morrison Novelist -
Margaret Atwood Poet -
Herta Muller Novelist -
Mario Vargas Llosa Writer -
Jenny Diski Writer -
Elfriede Jelinek Playwright -
J. M. Coetzee Novelist -
Selma Lagerlöf Author -
Muriel Spark Novelist -
Margaret Drabble Novelist -
Ian Mcewan Novelist -
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist -
Nadine Gordimer Writer -
Harold Pinter Playwright -
J.M.G. Le Clézio Writer -
Alice Munro Author