Jane Gardam Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Real Quotes #Future Quotes #Forget Quotes
“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.”
-- Jane Gardam

#Novelists Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Tribes Quotes
“If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.”
-- Jane Gardam

#Children Quotes #How To Love Quotes
“Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.”
-- Jane Gardam

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Two Quotes
“I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.”
-- Jane Gardam

#Would Be Quotes #Sensible Quotes
“I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.”
-- Jane Gardam

#Thinking Quotes #Influence Quotes #Cynicism Quotes
“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

#Country Quotes #Archer Quotes #Ethics Quotes
“I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.”
-- Jane Gardam

#Children Quotes #My Children Quotes

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