Children Quote by Joan Lingard

“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and,…

— Joan Lingard

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

— Joan Lingard

The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords the best view of the churning upper…

— Joan Lingard

When writing about Edinburgh, I place my characters in the parts of the city that I myself have lived in, or else know well,…

— Joan Lingard

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she…

— Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

— Joan Lingard

“Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.”

— Joan Lingard

The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower.

— Joan Lingard

I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district…

— Joan Lingard

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the…

— Joan Lingard

Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing.…

— Joan Lingard

Do you know there are at least seven ways to view Niagara Falls ... one of the natural wonders of the world?

— Joan Lingard