10月11日晚上7时,瑞典皇家科学院宣布将2007年诺贝尔文学奖颁予英国文坛宿将多丽丝·莱辛.
在数十年的写作生涯中,莱辛广为人知的名言有：
·That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
·Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
·Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
·Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
·There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but second best.
·You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
·I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
·The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books.
·Laughter is by definition healthy.
·It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
·What is a hero without love for mankind.
·In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
·I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
·The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
·For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
·This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -- we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
·Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.
·What's really terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the 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.
