"I was coming back from the hospital with my son Peter who was sick. I stepped out of a taxi and there were all these cameras, a whole posseof photographers. As this street is very good for that kind of thing, I thought they were shooting a soap or an episode of Morse or something. But it was me. So I first heard that I had won the Nobel prize for literature from the reporters.
“我和生病的儿子Peter一起从医院回家，下了出租车后周围都是相机，一大群摄像师。这条街道很适合这些东西，我本以为他们在拍肥皂剧或者Morse的一集还是其他什么东西。结果他们拍的是我，接着我第一次从记者那里听说我拿到了诺贝尔文学奖。”
 
"It is the most glamorous prize, and naturally it has got a lot of prestige, which none of the other prizes have, so it's the icing on the cake. At one point, sometime in the 70s, they [the Nobel academy] didn't like me - they said they didn't - but they seem to have changed their minds. Committees are like that. Of course I didn't expect to get it. I've been on the shortlistfor 40 years. It is good to be the 11th woman on the list, I'm only sorry that one of the first or fourth or the fifth wasn't Virginia Woolf. But I don't think it is helpful to talk about writers in terms of male and female. A lot of British writers have won it, which is good. We produce a lot of good writers. I've been talking non-stop all day. I've spoken to my publisher and agent and old friends who rang me up, which was very good. There were lots of people who have wanted me to have it for a long time, so it is very nice that I have. I'm exhausted. To celebrate I'd have to go and buy champagne. I'm going to bed."
“这是最吸引人的奖项，也会锦上添花的带来其他奖项不能带来的名望。在70年代曾有一度，他们（诺贝尔委员会）不喜欢我——他们说他们不喜欢——但是看起来他们改变了想法，委员们就是那样的。当然我没想过我会得到。我在候选名单上已经有40年了。成为得奖的第11位女性很好，我只是有点遗憾第一、四、五位中没有弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙。不过我觉得根据性别评论作家没有什么用处。很多英国作家拿过诺贝尔文学奖。我们有很多好作家。我已经说一整天话了，和我的出版商我的代理人还有给我打电话的老朋友，当然这很好。有很多人希望我拿诺贝尔奖有很长时间了，所以现在拿到了我很开心，我累了，为了庆祝我会去买香槟，我要睡觉了。”
 
多丽丝1962的作品《金色笔记》被认为是她的代表作。此外她的作品还有《青草在歌唱》、《暴力的孩子们》、《黑暗前的夏天》、《第五个孩子》等。