I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
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
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
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. - Jane Gardam
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. - Jane Gardam
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women. - Jane Gardam
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. - Jane Gardam
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child. - Jane Gardam
If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.
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
Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.
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 u… - Jane Gardam
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 u…
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