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Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

1932–2010 England

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English novelist who had been shortlisted five times for the Booker Prize. Her novels Injury Time (1977) and Every Man for Himself (1996) won Whitbread Awards.

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Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

They were burning the stubbled fields and a great stain of smoke flooded the horizon. Nothing amiss here, nothing derelict, the roofs newly thatched, the hedges trimmed, the gardens bright with flowers.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Beryl Bainbridge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.