Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
There is something very easy about women's friendships that you don't see as often with men. We all know examples of this, when women will just call each other up or drop a line, not with anything specific to say. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities.… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I'd like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I'd like to see them learn to make bread and brown it… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
