Margaret Forster famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
-- Margaret Forster

#Morning #Writing #Lovely
I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.
-- Margaret Forster

#Girl #Height #Heathcliff
God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.
-- Margaret Forster

#Pie #Sleeves
People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
-- Margaret Forster

#People #Nasty #Wonderful

Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.

Margaret Forster famous quotes

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