A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

- Nina Bawden

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

- Nina Bawden

I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we…

- Nina Bawden

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

- 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 things in a different way.

- 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 terrible people.

- 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 the country, so when the war cam…

- Nina Bawden

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

- Nina Bawden

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for…

- Nina Bawden