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Jane Gardam
English Writer
Born: Jul 11, 1928
Book Fiction Me Think Writing Young
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
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. Jane Gardam
Time Spiritual You Building Flame Lamp Siege Must Physical Mental Steady Lay Lighting Come Like Dry Parts Cave Provision Blow Site Short Different Stories Short Story Story While Hectic Depths Different Parts Full Explosions Novel
I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think. Jane Gardam
Hope Character Writing Style Young Nice Think Changed Indeed Say Bit Though About More Never Know Discovered Very Getting Interesting Loving Them Much
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters. Jane Gardam
Life Believe Characters One Thing Minor About Got Fiction Really Thing
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. Jane Gardam
Man Writing Law Husband East Would Bored Cases Both House Without Been Years Off Maybe Unfaithful Children Far Far East
I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book. Jane Gardam
You Book Hate Think One Book Able Idea Should Sequels
I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone! Jane Gardam
Book Gone Once Write Over Go Same Again
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. Jane Gardam
Me Be Happy Happy Writing Mother Before Live Way Seemed Only Potter Could Write Soon Read Bedtime Child Sensible Even Started
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. Jane Gardam
Dangerous Young Think Writer Most Discouragement Influence Cynicism Treated
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. Jane Gardam
Own Way Out My Own Along Five Walked Child Get Tiny Sands Away Nearly
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. Jane Gardam
Fear No Fear Goodness Delayed Write Never Had Knew Going Just Stopped Then Nearly Started
I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually. Jane Gardam
Politics Me Confused Say Spiritually Had Knew Perhaps Always Lot Politically

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