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Top Nina Bawden Quotes

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1. "I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor." ~ Nina Bawden
2. "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
3. "I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes." ~ Nina Bawden
4. "I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm." ~ Nina Bawden
5. "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 the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously." ~ Nina Bawden
6. "Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth." ~ Nina Bawden
7. "Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults." ~ Nina Bawden
8. "I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting." ~ Nina Bawden
9. "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
10. "People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that." ~ Nina Bawden
11. "Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships." ~ Nina Bawden
12. "Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose." ~ Nina Bawden
13. "At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales." ~ Nina Bawden
14. "But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn't really change that much from one generation to another." ~ Nina Bawden
15. "I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine." ~ Nina Bawden
16. "I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them." ~ Nina Bawden
17. "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 didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways." ~ Nina Bawden
18. "I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck." ~ Nina Bawden
19. "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." ~ Nina Bawden
20. "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 came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there." ~ Nina Bawden

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She wraps her arms around me and speaks in my ear. Words just for me--the poetry of I love you--to keep me warm in the cold. With them she turns me back from ash and nothing into flesh and blood."
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