I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share
I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right. — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
