Margaret Drabble Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, Writing, Finals

• I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, Teaching, People

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, People, Monsters

  Interview with Lydia Perović, www.believermag.com.

• If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, Writing, Bothered

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