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When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.

~Jane Gardam

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I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

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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.

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

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In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

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While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

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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.

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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.

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I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

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The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: July 11th, 1928

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