Quotes by : Margaret Drabble

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

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

I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed ....

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

When nothing is sure everything is possible.

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

Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they....

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....