Jane Gardam Quotes & Sayings
20 most famous Jane Gardam quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have for her.
“I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.”
“Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.”
“I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!”
“For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.”
“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.”
“Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.”
“English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.”
“I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.”
“I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.”
“I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.”
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