Quotes by : Margaret Drabble

Fran had from an unsuitably early age been attracted by the heroic death, the famous last words, the....

When nothing is sure everything is possible.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being....

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and....

It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not then....

It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever in....

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary:....

Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my....

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I....

The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely....