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  • If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

    Jane Gardam (2013). “Old Filth”, p.115, Hachette UK
  • I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

  • 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 (1986). “Crusoe's Daughter”, Atheneum Books
  • Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

  • I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

  • 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 ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

  • I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

  • English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

    Country   Archer   Ethics  
    Jane Gardam (2007). “The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories”, Random House
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