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....

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

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

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

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....

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