List of Margaret Drabble Quotes

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Margaret Drabble
Total Quotes 27
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
Tired London
Scenery can be a violent stimulant.
Violent Scenery Stimulants
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
Views Novelists Stories
Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?
People Efficient Flexible
Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. we disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. ... by the time they learn to speak they have forgotten the details of their complaints, and so we never know. they forget so quickly, we say, because we cannot contemplate the fact that they never forget.
Children Details Facts
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. one measured it by a sliding scale. one was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
Poverty Poor Scales
Nothing fails like failure
Failure Failing
What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and e m forster.
Class People
I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because i so longed to have another look at him.
Positive Baby Morning
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which i admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which i deplore.
Dying Tradition Ends
There are some writers who wrote too much. there are others who wrote enough. there are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and jane austen is certainly one of these.
Too Much Enough Admirer
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.
Children Past Years
  • Born: June 5, 1939
  • Occupation: Novelist
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