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Jane Gardam Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

The best novel I wrote was one called ‘Crusoe’s Daughter,’ which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I’m not sure I have in any of the others Picture Quote #1

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 have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected Picture Quote #1

I can’t write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it’s gone! Picture Quote #1

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 as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder Picture Quote #1

While writing a novel, I don’t read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed Picture Quote #1

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Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn’t write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I’ve never stopped Picture Quote #1

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women Picture Quote #1

If you’ve not been loved as a child, you don’t know how to love a child Picture Quote #1

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do Picture Quote #1

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) The best novel I wrote was one called ‘Crusoe’s Daughter,’ which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I’m not sure I have in any of the others. (Jane Gardam Quotes) 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 have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected. (Jane Gardam Quotes) I can’t write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it’s gone! (Jane Gardam Quotes) 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 as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. (Jane Gardam Quotes) While writing a novel, I don’t read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. (Jane Gardam Quotes) Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn’t write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I’ve never stopped. (Jane Gardam Quotes) I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women (Jane Gardam Quotes) If you’ve not been loved as a child, you don’t know how to love a child (Jane Gardam Quotes) I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do (Jane Gardam Quotes) 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 Quotes)