Beryl Bainbridge

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

— Beryl Bainbridge

“Some people find it comfortable to go through life on their knees, and good luck to them, but I prefer to keep…

— Beryl Bainbridge

“I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

— Beryl Bainbridge

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

— Beryl Bainbridge

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

— Beryl Bainbridge

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of…

— Beryl Bainbridge

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the…

— Beryl Bainbridge

“A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it, but he soon feels the weight of any other object.…

— Beryl Bainbridge

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

— Beryl Bainbridge

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

— Beryl Bainbridge

“It wasn't all misery. On one of our halts we lay spreadeagled on the ice and stared up at a sky blazing…

— Beryl Bainbridge

“...he raised his eyes above the black shapes of the trees and saw a small moon, the colour of a lemon, dragged…

— Beryl Bainbridge

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large…

— Beryl Bainbridge

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible…

— Beryl Bainbridge

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

— Beryl Bainbridge

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by…

— Beryl Bainbridge

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

— Beryl Bainbridge

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.…

— Beryl Bainbridge

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw…

— Beryl Bainbridge

Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I…

— Beryl Bainbridge

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

— Beryl Bainbridge