Book Quote by Nina Bawden

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at…

— Nina Bawden

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are…

— Nina Bawden

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

— Nina Bawden

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the…

— Nina Bawden

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in…

— Nina Bawden

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my…

— Nina Bawden

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older…

— Nina Bawden

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

— Nina Bawden

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

— Nina Bawden

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they…

— Nina Bawden

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a…

— Nina Bawden