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Jane Gardam Quotes

English - Writer | July 11, 1928 -

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

Mother Live Happy Child Me Be Happy

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

Influence Think Dangerous Young Most

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

Style Copy Want Poor My Own Own

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

I Am Writing New Fiction Anything

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

Child Way My Own Out Own Get

I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.

Fear Goodness No Fear Never Write

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Politics Me Confused Say Always Had

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.

Daughter Best Others Never Somewhere

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