Quotes By Author: Margaret Drabble

“What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering–that you’re supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn’t have bothered to write them.”

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

“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”