I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
Margaret DrabbleThere would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.
Margaret DrabbleNovels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.
Margaret DrabbleThere are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.
Margaret Drabble