Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave…

- Beryl Bainbridge

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

- Beryl Bainbridge

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

- Beryl Bainbridge

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

- Beryl Bainbridge

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has bee…

- Beryl Bainbridge

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

- Beryl Bainbridge

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

- Beryl Bainbridge

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

- Beryl Bainbridge

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

- Beryl Bainbridge