Quote by Margaret Drabble

“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?”

— Margaret Drabble

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

— Margaret Drabble

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future…

— Margaret Drabble

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

— Margaret Drabble

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money,…

— Margaret Drabble

“Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can…

— Margaret Drabble

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

— Margaret Drabble

World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years…

— Margaret Drabble

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

— Margaret Drabble

“Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation…

— Margaret Drabble

How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need…

— Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

— Margaret Drabble