Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
Margaret LaurenceIf I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
Margaret LaurenceKnow that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Margaret LaurenceWhy doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?
Margaret LaurenceI've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.
Margaret LaurenceI used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.
Margaret Laurence