Doris Lessing Quotes

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I think it's easy for them to portray me as an aggressive player, but I'm not.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.