If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.
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.
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…
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
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.
I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women. - Jane Gardam
I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
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