I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
Margaret DrabblePerhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret DrabbleTags: wisdom
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
Margaret DrabbleHis chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes; he was unable to let a good idea drop, and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse. The comment had some truth in it, in that the heroine did have an equine cast of feature, but he made it too often, and with too little variation; however, she was willing to forgive him, in view of his evident tolerance of her social errors, such as an inability to say whether or not she wanted an ice cream.
Margaret DrabbleI don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction
Margaret Drabble[on John Cowper Powys]...there is an indistinct photograph of the great man himself, gazing into the misty cleft of a mountain range, wearing what could be an old rug, or an old cardigan. He looks like a cross between an aged werewolf and a puzzled child.
Margaret DrabbleTags: john-cowper-powys
Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so.
Margaret DrabbleBecause if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.
Margaret DrabbleTags: hope
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