Margaret Drabble Quotes

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

If you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.

I know too much and not enough

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Too much money ain't enough money.

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

My lord. It is too much, and not enough