Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. — Nina Bawden Adults Copy Share Image
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. — Nina Bawden Theft Copy Share Image
I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm. — Nina Bawden Country Copy Share Image
I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them… — Nina Bawden Different Copy Share Image
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. — Nina Bawden Autobiography Copy Share Image
I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been… — Nina Bawden Cadets Copy Share Image
I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you… — Nina Bawden Being a woman Copy Share Image
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...… — Nina Bawden Events Copy Share Image
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've… — Nina Bawden Age Copy Share Image
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a… — Nina Bawden Books Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise… — Nina Bawden Adults Copy Share Image
I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you… — Nina Bawden Abandoned Copy Share Image
I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to… — Nina Bawden Bloody Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We… — Nina Bawden College Copy Share Image
The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I… — Nina Bawden Almost Copy Share Image
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and… — Nina Bawden Book Copy Share Image
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument,… — Nina Bawden Adults Copy Share Image
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they… — Nina Bawden Book Copy Share Image
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of… — Nina Bawden Abandoned Copy Share Image
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown… — Nina Bawden Better off Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to… — Nina Bawden Auntie Copy Share Image
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat… — Nina Bawden Broke Copy Share Image
The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the… — Nina Bawden About Copy Share Image
People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that. — Nina Bawden Care Copy Share Image
I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend,… — Nina Bawden Curtains Copy Share Image
But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the… — Nina Bawden Boots Copy Share Image
There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But… — Nina Bawden Children Copy Share Image
At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls.… — Nina Bawden County Copy Share Image
The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something… — Nina Bawden Adults Copy Share Image
If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in… — Nina Bawden Bars Copy Share Image
