Archive for December 10th, 2007

10 Dec 2007 Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Have you seen this yet? Check it out at The Guardian’s website.

What a beautiful and humbling acceptance speech, don’t you think? I really liked the following paragraph:

“The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.”

Read through the whole thing. It’s very touching.