Jane Gardam Quotes
- If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.
- I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
- I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
- For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would…
- I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.
- I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime.…
- I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
- Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision…
- I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly…
- I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.