I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. - Nina Bawden
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
- 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 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…
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by th… - Nina Bawden
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by th…
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
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.
I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor. - Nina Bawden
I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
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
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.
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. - Nina Bawden
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
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
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.
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
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…
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