“… at it's best fiction is medicine.”

Boston Book Review interview by Harvey Blume http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html (February 1998)

Source: The Corrections

From Interviews

Source: How To Write Science Fiction

Entertainment Weekly interview http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20006490,00.html (4 January 2007)
Context: I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream... Obviously, it’s a challenge to make light of the darkness but, um, it’s better than crying about it.

Original: (it) La musica è lo strumento più antico al mondo, la miglior medicina, l'armonia e la pura espressione di ogni anima.
Source: prevale.net