Top 8 Quotes by Jane Gardam

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

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

Would Be, Sensible, Things To Do

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, Future, Forget

Jane Gardam (1986). “Crusoe's Daughter”, Atheneum Books

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

Jane Gardam

Children, How To Love, Know How

Jane Gardam (2013). “Old Filth”, p.115, Hachette UK

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, Ugly, Tribes