Jane Gardam Quotes

• I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

  Jane Gardam

  Would Be, Sensible, Things To Do

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• Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

  Jane Gardam

  Real, Future, Forget

  Jane Gardam (1986). “Crusoe's Daughter”, Atheneum Books

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• If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

  Jane Gardam

  Children, How To Love, Know How

  Jane Gardam (2013). “Old Filth”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

  Jane Gardam

  Novelists, Ugly, Tribes

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• I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

  Jane Gardam

  Thinking, Young Writers, Influence

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• Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

  Jane Gardam

  Book, Men, Two

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• I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

  Jane Gardam

  Children, My Children, Happens

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• English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

  Jane Gardam

  Country, Archer, Ethics

  Jane Gardam (2007). “The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories”, Random House

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