8+ Jane Gardam Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Jane Gardam quotes and sayings.

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

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. — Jane Gardam

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

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women. — Jane Gardam

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared. — Jane Gardam

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

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. — Jane Gardam

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