30 Quotes by Margaret Laurence

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

If I hadn’t had my children, I wouldn’t have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

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.

I’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.

I am rampant with memory.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

What goes on inside isn’t ever the same as what goes on outside.

Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.